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Parviturbo
Sign in to saveParviturbo is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Skeneidae.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderTrochida
- FamilySkeneidae
Habitatmarine
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 347
- With media
- 2
- Family
- Skeneidae
- Collections
- ANSP, LACM, SDNHM, FMNH, MNHN, UF
- Recorded in
- Ecuador, United States, Mexico, Ocean Indien, France, Trinidad And Tobago, Barbados
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- taxon name
- Parviturbo
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- genus
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- Category:Parviturbo
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Parviturbo is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Skeneidae.
==Description== The very small, solid shell is perforate or has a narrow umbilicus. It contains a few convex whorls. The protoconch consists of one or two smooth whorls. The turbinate or globoso-conic shell shows numerous subequal spiral cords with in their intervals well developed or weak cross threads. The dentition of the radula is rhipidoglossate.
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