Skenea diaphana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Skeneidae.[1]
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| Drawing of a shell of Skenea diaphana | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Skeneidae |
| Genus: | Skenea |
| Species: | S. diaphana
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| Skenea diaphana (A. E. Verrill, 1884)
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Description
editThe size of the shell attains 2.5 mm. The thin shell is narrowly umbilicated. It has a depressed trochiform shape. It is translucent, white, smooth, and shining. The 3½ whorls are very convex with a deep suture. They are smooth, except twenty to twenty-five close spiral lines around the umbilical perforation.[2]
Distribution
editThis species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean from Virginia, USA, to Brazil.
References
edit- ^ Skenea diaphana (A. E. Verrill, 1884). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 21 April 2010.
- ^ G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (described as Cyclostrema diaphana)
- Verrill, A. E. 1884. Second catalogue of Mollusca recently added to the fauna of the New England coast and the adjacent parts of the Atlantic, consisting mostly of deep-sea species, with notes on others previously recorded. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 6: 139–294