Cyclostrema exiguum
Cyclostrema exiguum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Liotiidae.[2]
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| Drawing with two views of a shell of Cyclostrema exiguum | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Clade: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Liotiidae |
| Genus: | Cyclostrema |
| Species: | C. exiguum |
| Binomial name | |
| Cyclostrema exiguum Philippi, 1849 [1] | |
| Synonyms | |
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Cyclostrema exigua Philippi, 1849 (wrong gender) | |
Description
The diameter of the shell is 2.3 mm. The shell is rather widely umbilicated. It has a subdiscoidal shape with radiating riblets fimbriating four spiral cariniae.
Distribution
This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar, Réunion and in the Gulf of Aden.
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References
- Philippi, Zeitsch f. Mal., 1849, p. 25
- Cyclostrema exiguum Philippi, 1849. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 22 April 2010.
- Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises, III (fasc. 4). Société d'Editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales: Paris. 321–636, plates IV-VII pp.
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