Lodderia novemcarinata
{{Short description|Species of gastropod}}
{{Cleanup taxon|date=Jan 2019|concern=unaccepted}}
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| taxon = Lodderia novemcarinata
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| image_caption = Original drawing of a shell of Lodderia novemcarinata
| authority = (Melvill, 1906)
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- Circulus novemcarinatus (Melvill, 1906)
- Cyclostrema novemcarinatum Melvill, 1906 (original description)
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Lodderia novemcarinata is a minute, sea snail or micromollusc, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Skeneidae.Bouchet, P. (2013). Lodderia novemcarinata (Melvill, 1906). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=701851 on 2013-11-04
Description
The height of the shell attains 1.25 mm, its diameter 3.5 mm. The small white shell has a depressed suborbicular shape. It is deeply umbilicate. It contains 5 whorls, including two minute ones in the apex. It shows nine acute, spiral keels on the body whorl (of which the sutural and the inner umbilical keels are but weakly developed). The shell is minutely radiately, very closely striate, giving it a shagreened and silky appearance The growth lines in the interstices are apparent. The aperture is circular and white on the inside. The peristome is continuous.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/53746#page/52/mode/1up Melvill (1906) A revision of the species of Cyclostrematidae and Liotiidae occurring in the Persian Gulf and North Arabian Sea. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 7:20–28, Pl. 3.]
Distribution
This species occurs in the Arabian Sea off Muscat, Oman, in the northwest Indian Ocean and in the Red Sea.
References
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- Bosch D.T., Dance S.P., Moolenbeek R.G. & Oliver P.G. (1995) Seashells of eastern Arabia. Dubai: Motivate Publishing. 296 pp.
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20111215232728/http://homepage.univie.ac.at/martin.zuschin/Janssen%20et%20al.%202011.pdf JANSSEN, ZUSCHIN & BAAL: Gastropods and their habitats from the northern Red Sea(Egypt: Safaga) Part 2: Caenogastropoda: Sorbeoconcha and Littorinimorpha; Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, Serie A, Wien, Mai 2011]
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