''Lissospira abyssicola'' is a

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Skeneidae The Skeneidae are a speciose family of minute to small marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Trochoidea.Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2013). Skeneidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php ...

.Rosenberg, G. (2012). ''Lissospira abyssicola'' Bush, 1897. Accessed through:

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at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=532976 on 2012-09-01

Description

The size of the shell attains 2.5 mm. In its general appearance this marine species resembles a true ''Lissospira'', but the umbilical chink is channeled and defined by a raised thread and the

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is modified by the

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to which the peritreme is more attached than in a typical species. It is similar in form to ''

Lissospira dalli ''Lissospira dalli'' is a small species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Skeneidae.Rosenberg, G. (2012). ''Lissospira dalli'' (A. E. Verrill, 1882). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespe ...

'' but larger, without

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and with the columellar lip less flattened.Bush, K. J. 1897. ''Revision of the marine gastropods referred to Cyclostrema, Adeorbis, Vitrinella, and related genera; with descriptions of some new genera and species belonging to the Atlantic fauna of America''. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 10: 97-144, pls. 22-23, (1899-1900)
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Distribution

This species occurs in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean off

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at a depth of 1790 m.

References

External links

To Encyclopedia of Life

To World Register of Marine Species
{{Taxonbar, from=Q6559218 abyssicola Gastropods described in 1897