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Species of gastropod From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Leucorhynchia caledonica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Skeneidae.[1]
Leucorhynchia caledonica | |
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Shells of Leucorhynchia caledonica | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
Order: | Trochida |
Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
Family: | Skeneidae |
Genus: | Leucorhynchia |
Species: | L. caledonica |
Binomial name | |
Leucorhynchia caledonica Crosse, 1867 | |
Synonyms | |
Teinostoma (Leucorhynchia) caledonicum Crosse, 1867 |
The diameter of the shell is 3 mm. The polished, shining, whitish shell has a subdiscoidal shape and is slightly convex above and below. The spire contains 3 flattened whorls that are rapidly increasing. The periphery is carinate. The simple peristome is continuous and is thickened at the base and produced into a tongue-like callus past the umbilicus, leaving a perforation between it and the columellar wall.[2]
This marine species occurs in the Western Pacific Ocean, off the Philippines, Indo-Malaysia, New Caledonia and Queensland, Australia; in the Indian Ocean off Réunion.
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