Lodderia coatsiana

Lodderia coatsiana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Skeneidae.[1]

Lodderia coatsiana
Original drawing with two views of a shell of Lodderia coatsiana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Skeneidae
Genus: Lodderia
Species:
L. coatsiana
Binomial name
Lodderia coatsiana
(Melvill & Standen, 1912)
Synonyms
  • Liotella coatsiana (Melvill & Standen, 1912)
  • Cyclostrema coatsianum (Melvill & Standen, 1912)

Description

The height of the shell attains 2.25 mm. This is a small, solid, white shell with a deep umbilicus, elegantly sculptured. It contains 4 whorls, with two apical sleek, white whorls. The two others are aequicostate with smooth, thickened, subflexuous ribs. The penultimate whorl is very flat. The last whorl has four spiral keels, with a blunt keel below the sutures, two at the periphery. The aperture is round.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Magellanic Strait off Argentina at a depth of about 100 m.

References

  • Engl W. (2012) Shells of Antarctica. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 402 pp.


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