Cyclostrema dunkeri

Cyclostrema dunkeri
Original drawing with two views of a shell of Cyclostrema dunkeri
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Liotiidae
Genus: Cyclostrema
Species: C. dunkeri
Binomial name
Cyclostrema dunkeri
Tryon, 1888[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Cyclostrema cingulatum Dunker, 1859 (invalid: secondary junior homonym of Cyclostrema cingulatum (Philippi, 1852); C. dunkeri is a replacement name)

Cyclostrema dunkeri is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Liotiidae.[2]

Description

The diameter of the shell attains 2.5 mm. The depressed shell is widely umbilicated, with a spiral rib near the suture, another on the periphery, and a third circumscribing the umbilicus.[1]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Japan.

References

External identifiers for Cyclostrema dunkeri
WoRMS 738015


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