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Scissurella reticulata

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Gastropoda

Superfamily
  
Scissurelloidea

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Clade
  
Vetigastropoda

Family
  
Scissurellidae

Scissurella reticulata

Scissurella reticulata is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Scissurellidae, the little slit snails.

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Desxcription

The shell has a diameter of 2 mm. The white shell is thin, transparent, and glassy. It has an ovate shape, but it is rather depressed. The spire consists of 3½ convex whorls that increase pretty rapidly The striae of growth are cut into a reticulation by impressed transverse lines. The umbilicus is moderate, showing none of the whorls. The aperture is obliquely ovate.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea.

References

Scissurella reticulata Wikipedia