Scissurella supraplicata

Scissurella supraplicata is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Scissurellidae, the little slit snails.[2][3][4]

Scissurella supraplicata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Clade: Lepetellida
Superfamily: Scissurelloidea
Family: Scissurellidae
Genus: Scissurella
Species:
S. supraplicata
Binomial name
Scissurella supraplicata
Synonyms

Anatoma supraplicata (E. A. Smith, 1875)

Description

The height of the shell reaches 1 mm. The shell has a heliciform shape. The thin spire is short, narrowly perforate, and semi-pellucid. It has a white color with a caducous rather thick pale olive epidermis. The spire consists of three whorls, the first ? (abrupt), the second a little convex, somewhat planulate above and radiately arcuately plicate. The body whorl is large, having a thin double carina (slit fasciole) a little above the middle, radiately arcuately plicate above the carina, below it with stride of growth. The large aperture is irregularly circular, and very slightly expanded at the basal margi. The peristome is continuous. The deep, narrow slit is situated between the two thread-like keels. ([5]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Southern Indian Ocean off Kerguelen Islands.

References
  1. Smith, E. A. 1875. Descriptions of some new shells from Kerguelen's Island. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (4)16: 67-73
  2. Bouchet, P. (2013). Scissurella supraplicata E. A. Smith, 1875. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=493092 on 2013-02-16
  3. Zelaya D.G. & Geiger D.L. (2007). Species of Scissurellidae and Anatomidae from Sub-Antarctic and Antarctic waters (Gastropopda: Vetigastropoda). Malacologia 49(2):393-443.
  4. Geiger D.L. (2012) Monograph of the little slit shells. Volume 1. Introduction, Scissurellidae. pp. 1-728. Volume 2. Anatomidae, Larocheidae, Depressizonidae, Sutilizonidae, Temnocinclidae. pp. 729-1291. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Monographs Number 7. (30 October 2012)
  5. G.W. Tryon (1890), Manual of Conchology vol. XII
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