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Cyclostrema spiculigerum

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Cyclostrema spiculigerum
Original drawing with two views of a shell of Cyclostrema spiculigerum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Liotiidae
Genus: Cyclostrema
Species:
C. spiculigerum
Binomial name
Cyclostrema spiculigerum
J.C. Melvill, 1912

Cyclostrema spiculigerum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Liotiidae.[1]

Description

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The height of the shell attains 2 mm, its diameter 3 mm. The small, white shell has a depressed discoidal shape and shows a deep umbilicus. It contains 4 whorls, including the two apical whorls. The aperture is round. The thin peristome is continuous. This species is remarkable for the coronal of equidistal abbreviated spicules, which denote the uppermost and most strongly developed of the spiral lirae in the two lowest whorls.[1]

Distribution

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This marine species occurs in the Persian Gulf.

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