Sinezona ferriezi

Sinezona ferriezi
Drawing with two views of a shell of Sinezona ferriezi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Lepetellida
Superfamily: Scissurelloidea
Family: Scissurellidae
Genus: Sinezona
Species:
S. ferriezi
Binomial name
Sinezona ferriezi
(Crosse, 1867)
Synonyms[1][2]
  • Schismope ferriezi Crosse, 1867
  • Schismope padangensis (Thiele, 1912)
  • Scissurella padangensis Thiele, 1912
  • Sinezona padangensis (Thiele, 1912)

Sinezona ferriezi is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Scissurellidae, the little slit snails.[1][3]

Description

The height of the yellowish-white shell reaches 1½ mm. The umbilicate shell has a turbinate-subdepressed shape. It is longitudinally and subobliquely striatulate. The short spire is obtuse; The spire consists of 3-3½ whorls. The first whorl is smooth, and separated by simple sutures. The remaining whorls are rather plane, lamellosely bicarinate above the middle, channelled between the carinae. The body whorl is subdescending, and is a little constricted just below the carina, then inflated and convex. The groove terminates a short distance behind the lip in an oblong foramen, which does not attain the edge of the lip, a smooth space intervening. The aperture is ovate-rounded. The simple peristome is thin, acute, and subcontinuous.[4]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off New Caledonia.

References

  1. ^ a b Bouchet, P. (2013). Sinezona ferriezi (Crosse, 1867). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=492814 on 2013-02-16
  2. ^ Crosse, Journ. de Conchyl. 1867, p. 318, t. 11, f. 7.
  3. ^ 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. (30 October 2012)
  4. ^ G.W. Tryon (1890), Manual of Conchology vol. XII (described as Schismope ferriezi)
  • 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.
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