Dikoleps nitens
| Dikoleps nitens | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Family: | Skeneidae |
| Genus: | Dikoleps |
| Species: | D. nitens |
| Binomial name | |
| Dikoleps nitens (Philippi, 1844) | |
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Dikoleps nitens is a minute species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Skeneidae.[1]
Description
[edit]Shell: Similar to S. serpuloides but with a taller, more pointed spire (apical angle 110–115°). Surface glossy, smooth, except occasionally a few spiral lines near the umbilicus. Umbilicus smaller, oval to comma-shaped, partly obscured by an out-turned inner lip. Outer lip with two sinuses: one at the periphery, another basally.
Other features: Four swollen whorls. Aperture ear-shaped; peristome not planar. Umbilicus bordered abaperturally by a spiral ridge arising from the aperture base. Growth lines sinuous, matching outer-lip curvature. Colour white to brownish. Height and width up to 1.5 mm; last whorl comprises 90–95% of shell height, aperture 70%.
Animal: Externally like S. serpuloides but lacking the right epipodial tentacle. White. [2]
Distribution
[edit]Recorded from Norway to the Mediterranean; in the British Isles, absent only from eastern Channel and North Sea coasts. Occurs among weeds and in pools on lower rocky shores (L.W.S.T.) and to 100 m depth.[3]
References
[edit]- ↑ Dikoleps nitens (Philippi, 1844). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 21 April 2010.
- ↑ https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id307417/
- ↑ https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id307417/
- Philippi R. A., 1844: Enumeratio molluscorum Siciliae cum viventium tum in tellure tertiaria fossilium, quae in itinere suo observavit. Vol. 2; Eduard Anton, Halle [Halis Saxorum] iv + 303 p., pl. 13–28
- Rubio F., Dantart L. & Luque A. (2004). El género Dikoleps (Gastropoda, Skeneidae) en las costas ibéricas. Iberus, 22(1): 113–132
External links
[edit]- "Dikoleps nitens". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.