Kingdom Animalia Class Gastropoda Superfamily Trochoidea Rank Species | Phylum Mollusca Clade Vetigastropoda Family Liotiidae | |
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Cyclostrema solariellum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Liotiidae.
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Description
The height of the shell attains 0.5 mm and its diameter 1.5 mm. The thin, whitish shell is depressed and a deep umbilicus. It contains four whorls with the last one rapidly increasing in size. The aperture is ovate. The outer lip is simple. It has a double row of gemmules on the lirae below the sutures, and at the base, around the umbilicus.
Distribution
This marine species occurs off Mumbay, India.
References
Cyclostrema solariellum Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA