Alcyna lifuensis

Alcyna lifuensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[1]

Alcyna lifuensis
Original drawing of a shell of Alcyna lifuensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Alcyna
Species:
A. lifuensis
Binomial name
Alcyna lifuensis
Melvill & Standen, 1896

Description

The height of the shell attains 1.75 mm, its diameter 1 mm. It is a brightly colored small, imperforate shell with five slightly swollen whorls. These are white with transverse interrupted red lines encircling it spirally. Around the periphery these lines are regularly interrupted, leaving equal white spaces. Below the suture on the body whorl there are square white spaces left bare. The aperture is round. The outer lip is plain and slightly effuse. The columella has a very strong tooth near the base.[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off the Loyalty Islands.

gollark: Unless they caused a Helvetica Scenario in the HTTP stuff.
gollark: I think the actual answer is that the server has an unreliable connection and the timing happened to work out to make it look like you broke it.
gollark: ++list_deleted
gollark: You see, I planned for everything except what I didn't plan for.
gollark: What doesn't work? I have no idea what you did.

References
  1. Bouchet, P. (2012). Alcyna lifuensis Melvill & Standen, 1896. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=595813 on 2012-11-23
  2. Melvill J.C. & Standen R. (1896) Notes on a collection of shells from Lifu and Uvea, Loyalty Islands, formed by the Rev. James and Mrs. Hadfield, with list of species. Part II. Journal of Conchology 8: 273-315
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.