Cyclostrema eupoietum
Species of gastropod
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Cyclostrema eupoietum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Liotiidae.[1][2]
| Cyclostrema eupoietum | |
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| Original drawing of a shell of Cyclostrema eupoietum | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Liotiidae |
| Genus: | Cyclostrema |
| Species: | C. eupoietum |
| Binomial name | |
| Cyclostrema eupoietum Melvill, 1904 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Cyclostrema eupoletum Melvill, 1904 (misspelling) | |
Description
(Original description by Melvill) The height of the shell attains 1.5 mm and its diameter 2 mm. This is a small, narrowly umbilicated shell with four whorls. The last two whorls are very closely spirally lirately furrowed. The penultimate whorls is puncto-striate. The crenelations round the half-covered umbilicus are large in proportion to the size of the shell. The aperture is round. The peristome is continuous, hardly thickened, a tongue-shaped process, lirato-sulcate as is the rest of the surface, extending over the umbilical region.[3]
Distribution
This species occurs in the Persian Gulf.