Skenea diaphana (A. E. Verrill 1884)

Skenea diaphana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Skeneidae.^[1]

Description

The size of the shell attains 2.5 mm. The thin shell is narrowly umbilicated. It has a depressed trochiform shape. It is translucent, white, smooth, and shining. The 3½ whorls are very convex with a deep suture. They are smooth, except twenty to twenty-five close spiral lines around the umbilical perforation.^[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean from Virginia, USA, to Brazil.

References

• Verrill, A. E. 1884. Second catalogue of Mollusca recently added to the fauna of the New England coast and the adjacent parts of the Atlantic, consisting mostly of deep-sea species, with notes on others previously recorded. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 6: 139–294