Quinnia patula
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| Quinnia patula | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Seguenzioidea |
| Family: | Seguenziidae |
| Subfamily: | Seguenziinae |
| Genus: | Quinnia |
| Species: | Q. patula |
| Binomial name | |
| Quinnia patula (Marshall, 1983)[1] | |
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Quinnia patula is a species of extremely small deep water sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Seguenziidae.[2][3]
The white, thin, umbilicate, and depressed shell is markedly broader (8.35 mm) than high (5.65 mm). It is translucent nacreous.