Alcyna lifuensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[1]

Alcyna lifuensis
Original drawing of a shell of Alcyna lifuensis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Alcyna
Species:
A. lifuensis
Binomial name
Alcyna lifuensis
Melvill & Standen, 1896

Description

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The height of the shell attains 1.75 mm, its diameter 1 mm. It is a brightly colored small, imperforate shell with five slightly swollen whorls. These are white with transverse interrupted red lines encircling it spirally. Around the periphery these lines are regularly interrupted, leaving equal white spaces. Below the suture on the body whorl there are square white spaces left bare. The aperture is round. The outer lip is plain and slightly effuse. The columella has a very strong tooth near the base.[2]

Distribution

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This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off the Loyalty Islands.

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