Liotella corona explained

Liotella corona is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Skeneidae.[1]

Description

The height of the white shell attains 0.28 mm, its diameter 0.82 mm. The minute shell has a discoid shape. It is not nacreous. The spire is sunken. The umbilicus is wide and shallow. The shell consists of three whorls. The last half-whorl comes scarcely in contact with the others, and is suddenly and deeply deflected.

Sculpture

The body whorl is ringed by 16 thick, projecting, distant ribs which fade above and below at the sutures. These ribs continue on the suture for about half a whorl. The interstices of the ribs are faintly spirally scratched. The very oblique aperture is circular and fortified by a varix.[2]

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to Australia.

References

Notes and References

  1. Marshall, B. (2013). Liotella corona (Hedley, 1902). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=720331 on 2013-10-25
  2. https://archive.org/details/proceedingsoflin27linn Hedley Charles (1902) Studies on Australian Mollusca. Part VI; Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales vol. 27 (1902)