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Dillwynella
''Dillwynella'' is a genus of sea snails, marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks in the family (biology), family Skeneidae. The genus name of ''Dillwynella'' is in honour of Lewis Weston Dillwyn (1778 – 1855), who was a British porcelain manufacturer, naturalist and Whig Member of Parliament (MP). Description The minute, depressed, porcellanous Gastropod shell, shell has a thin horny Operculum (gastropod), operculum. It consists of comparatively few Whorl (mollusc), whorls. The shell is imperforate, but with a depression bounded by a riblet in the umbilical rib outside of the Columella (gastropod), columella. The few whorls have a thin fugacious epidermis. The outer Lip (gastropod), lip is thin . The Columella (gastropod), columella has no teeth, projections, or folds, passing smoothly into the anterior margin. Species Species within the genus ''Dillwynella'' include: * † ''Dillwynella aulacophora'' Cossmann, 1913 Cossmann (1915), Révision des scaphopodes, gastropodes et ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dillwynella
''Dillwynella'' is a genus of sea snails, marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks in the family (biology), family Skeneidae. The genus name of ''Dillwynella'' is in honour of Lewis Weston Dillwyn (1778 – 1855), who was a British porcelain manufacturer, naturalist and Whig Member of Parliament (MP). Description The minute, depressed, porcellanous Gastropod shell, shell has a thin horny Operculum (gastropod), operculum. It consists of comparatively few Whorl (mollusc), whorls. The shell is imperforate, but with a depression bounded by a riblet in the umbilical rib outside of the Columella (gastropod), columella. The few whorls have a thin fugacious epidermis. The outer Lip (gastropod), lip is thin . The Columella (gastropod), columella has no teeth, projections, or folds, passing smoothly into the anterior margin. Species Species within the genus ''Dillwynella'' include: * † ''Dillwynella aulacophora'' Cossmann, 1913 Cossmann (1915), Révision des scaphopodes, gastropodes et ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |