Skenea trochoides

Short description: Species of gastropod

Skenea trochoides

Drawing with two views of a shell of Skenea trochoides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Mollusca
Class:  | Gastropoda
Subclass:  | Vetigastropoda
Order:  | Trochida
Superfamily:  | Trochoidea
Family:  | Skeneidae
Genus:  | Skenea
Species:  |

S. trochoides

Binomial name
Skenea trochoides

(Friele, 1876)

Synonyms[1]

* Cyclostrema laevigatum Friele, 1874
* Cyclostrema peterseni Friele 1877
* Cyclostrema trochoides Friele, 1874 (original combination)
* Ganesa laevigata (Friele, 1876)
* Moelleria laevigata Friele, 1876
* Skenea laevigata Jeffreys, 1876
* Tharsiella trochoides Friele, 1874

Skenea trochoides is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Skeneidae.[1]

G.W. Tryon thought this species was a synonym of Cyclostrema peterseni Frielle, 1877 (now a synonym of Skenea peterseni (Friele, 1877)) [2]

## Contents

* 1 Description
* 2 Distribution
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## Description

The size of the shell varies between 2 mm and 3 mm. The white shell is perforate, somewhat solid. It is opaque, smooth, and shining. The base of the shell contains sometimes a few faint oblique, curved lines;. The four whorls are convex and have a deep suture. The columellar lip is vertical, forming a slight angle with the outer lip at their junction.[2]

## Distribution

This species occurs in Arctic waters and in the northern Atlantic Ocean off Greenland, the Faroes and Scandinavia at depths between 60 m and 160 m.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Skenea trochoides (Friele, 1876). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 21 April 2010.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (described as Cyclostrema trochoides)

* Friele H. , 1876: Bidrag til Vestlandets Molluskfauna; Forhandlinger i Videnskabs-selskabet i Christiania 1875: 57–64
* Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213

## External links

* "Skenea trochoides" (in en). Gastropods.com. http://www.gastropods.com/8/Shell_21438.shtml.

Wikidata ☰ Q10820025 entry

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