Anatoma concinna explained

Anatoma concinna is a species of minute 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

• 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

External links

• Encyclopedia of Life
• World Register of Marine Species

Notes and 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. https://archive.org/details/manualconch12tryorich G.W. Tryon (1890), Manual of Conchology vol. XII