Kingdom Animalia Class Gastropoda Superfamily Trochoidea Rank Species | Phylum Mollusca Clade Vetigastropoda Family Skeneidae | |
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Lodderia coatsiana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Skeneidae.
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Description
The height of the shell attains 2.25 mm. This is a small, solid, white shell with a deep umbilicus, elegantly sculptured. It contains 4 whorls, with two apical sleek, white whorls. The two others are aequicostate with smooth, thickened, subflexuous ribs. The penultimate whorl is very flat. The last whorl has four spiral keels, with a blunt keel below the sutures, two at the periphery. The aperture is round.
Distribution
This marine species occurs in the Magellanic Strait off Argentina at a depth of about 100 m.
References
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