Cyclostrema prominulum explained

Cyclostrema prominulum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Liotiidae.^{[1] [2]}

Description

The height of the shell attains 1 mm and its diameter 2 mm. It is a very minute, deeply umbilicate, white shell with a depressed discoidal shape. The shell contains four whorls. The two apical whorls are very small. The surface is uniformly multilirate. The lirae at the periphery are metamorphosed into a strong, very prominent and acute keel. The aperture is round. The outer lip is thin.^[3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Gulf of Oman.

References

• Trew, A., 1984. The Melvill-Tomlin Collection. Part 30. Trochacea. Handlists of the Molluscan Collections in the Department of Zoology, National Museum of Wales

External links

• World Register of Marine Species

Notes and References

1. Bouchet, P. (2012). Cyclostrema prominulum Melvill & Standen, 1903. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=701865 on 2012-12-03
2. Bosch D.T., Dance S.P., Moolenbeek R.G. & Oliver P.G. (1995) Seashells of eastern Arabia. Dubai: Motivate Publishing. 296 pp.
3. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29993050#page/314/mode/1up Melvill & Standen, 1903; Descriptions of 68 new Gastropoda from the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Oman and the North Arabian Sea; The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 7th series, v. 12 (1903)