Anatoma euglypta is a species of very small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Anatomidae.
Description
The shell grows to a length of 11 mm.
(Original description in French) The shell is thin and fragile, with a depressed spire and rapidly growing whorls. Its surface is uniformly reticulated, both below and above the "fissural band." This band is visible all the way to the apex, as it isn't covered by the suture of the early whorls.
Color of the shell: white, subtransparent.
The operculum is circular, multispiral, and transparent.
There are six epipodial tentacles on each side, including the postrhinophoric tentacle; all are similar.
Distribution
This marine species occurs in Antarctic and Subantarctic waters.
References
- Dell, R.K. 1990. Antarctic Mollusca: with special reference to the fauna of the Ross Sea. Bulletin of the Royal Society of New Zealand 27: 1âÂÂ311
- Hain, S. 1990. The benthic seashells (Gastropoda and Bivalvia) of the Weddell Sea, Antarctica. Berichte zur Polarforschung 70: 1-211, pls 1-30
- Zelaya D.G. & Geiger D.L. (2007). Species of Scissurellidae and Anatomidae from Sub-Antarctic and Antarctic waters (Gastropopda: Vetigastropoda). Malacologia 49(2):393âÂÂ443.
- Geiger D.L. (2012) Monograph of the little slit shells. Volume 1. Introduction, Scissurellidae. pp. 1âÂÂ728. Volume 2. Anatomidae, Larocheidae, Depressizonidae, Sutilizonidae, Temnocinclidae. pp. 729âÂÂ1291. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Monographs Number 7.
- Engl W. (2012) Shells of Antarctica. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 402 pp
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