Kingdom Animalia Class Gastropoda Superfamily Scissurelloidea Rank Species | Phylum Mollusca Clade Vetigastropoda Family Anatomidae | |
Similar Scissurellidae, Puncturella noachina, Diodora italica, Diodora graeca, Emarginula | ||
Anatoma crispata is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Anatomidae.
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Description
The length of the shell varies between 1 mm and 4 mm. The globose, pearly white shell slopes toward the periphery. It is delicate, semitransparent, and glossy. The sculpture consists of numerous fine, curved, longitudinal ribs, interrupted by the slit fasciole, closer on the base, intersected by minute spiral striae in the interstices. The thin epidermis is caducous, and pale yellowish-brown. The spire is usually rather depressed, but variable. The four ; whorls are flattened above, rapidly enlarging. The slit is long and narrow, nearly central. The slit fasciole is deep, striated across. The edges are somewhat thick, sharp, and prominent . The rounded aperture is oblique. The peristome is continuous. The outer lip is thin. The inner lip is folded back on the columella. The umbilicus is deep, but exposing only the body whorl. The operculum is very delicate, with numerous whorls, the last large.
Distribution
This species has a wide distribution. It occurs in circumarctic waters (Greenland, Canada, Baffin Island, Queen Elisabeth Islands, Labrador), in European waters, the Mediterranean Sea, in the Atlantic Ocean off the Azores, Cape Verde, Angola; in the Northwest Atlantic ocean (Florida, the Bahamas), in the West Indies, in the Pacific Ocean off California and Japan.