Parviturbo granulum

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

Parviturbo granulum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Skeneidae
Genus: Parviturbo
Species:
P. granulum
Binomial name
Parviturbo granulum
(Dall, 1889)
Synonyms

Cyclostrema granulum Dall, 1889

Description

(Original description by W.H. Dall) The size of the shell attains 1 mm in height and breadth. The shell is elevated and compact, having ten or twelve fine strong spiral cinguli, under which are finer radiating raised incremental lines. It is white with a rounded base and a perforate umbilicus, three whorls, a nearly circular aperture, with slightly thickened or expanded margin. For so small a shell it seems remarkably solid and strong.[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea off the Dominican Republic.

References

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