Leucorhynchia caledonica
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| 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 | |
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Teinostoma (Leucorhynchia) caledonicum Crosse, 1867 | |
Leucorhynchia caledonica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Skeneidae.[1]
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]
