Anatoma concinna

Anatoma concinna
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Lepetellida
Superfamily: Scissurelloidea
Family: Anatomidae
Genus: Anatoma
Species:
A. concinna
Binomial name
Anatoma concinna
A. Adams, 1862
Synonyms
  • Anatoma obtusata (Golikov & Gulbin, 1978)
  • Anatomus concinnus A. Adams, 1862 (original combination)
  • Scissurella obtusata Golikov & Gulbin, 1978

Anatoma concinna is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Anatomidae.[1]

Description

The ovate shell is rather depressed. The small spire is scarcely elevated and narrowly, profoundly umbilicate. The 2½ convex whorls are decussated by elevated radiating and concentric striae. The oblique aperture is suborbicular.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Japan.

References

  1. ^ WoRMS (2012). Anatoma concinna A. Adams, 1862. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=493010 on 2013-02-16
  2. ^ G.W. Tryon (1890), Manual of Conchology vol. XII
  • Geiger D.L. (2012) Monograph of the little slit shells. Volume 1. Introduction, Scissurellidae. pp. 1-728. Volume 2. Anatomidae, Larocheidae, Depressizonidae, Sutilizonidae, Temnocinclidae. pp. 729–1291. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Monographs Number 7.
  • Gulbin V.V. & Chaban E.M. (2012) Annotated list of shell-bearing gastropods of Commander Islands. Part I. The Bulletin of the Russian Far East Malacological Society 15-16: 5–30