Anatoma concinna
| Anatoma concinna | |
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| Shell of Anatoma concinna (lectotype at the Natural History Museum, London) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Lepetellida |
| Superfamily: | Scissurelloidea |
| Family: | Anatomidae |
| Genus: | Anatoma |
| Species: | A. concinna
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| Binomial name | |
| Anatoma concinna A. Adams, 1862
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Anatoma concinna is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Anatomidae.[1]
Description
(Original description in Latin) The shell is ovate and somewhat depressed. Its spire is small, scarcely elevated, and narrowly and deeply umbilicate. It has 2½ convex whorls, which are neatly decussated (crossed) with elevated radial and concentric striae. The aperture is oblique and sub-orbicular. [2]
The ovate shell is rather depressed. The small spire is scarcely elevated and narrowly, profoundly umbilicate. The 2½ convex whorls are decussated by elevated radiating and concentric striae. The oblique aperture is suborbicular.[3]
Distribution
This marine species occurs off Japan.
References
- ^ WoRMS (2012). Anatoma concinna A. Adams, 1862. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=493010 on 2013-02-16
- ^ Adams, A. (1862). "On some new species of Scissurellidae from the Seas of China and Japan". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 3 (10): 348. Retrieved 16 July 2025.
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- ^ G.W. Tryon (1890), Manual of Conchology vol. XII
- Geiger D.L. (2012) Monograph of the little slit shells. Volume 1. Introduction, Scissurellidae. pp. 1-728. Volume 2. Anatomidae, Larocheidae, Depressizonidae, Sutilizonidae, Temnocinclidae. pp. 729–1291. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Monographs Number 7.
- Gulbin V.V. & Chaban E.M. (2012) Annotated list of shell-bearing gastropods of Commander Islands. Part I. The Bulletin of the Russian Far East Malacological Society 15-16: 5–30