{{Short description|Species of gastropod}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}} {{Speciesbox | taxon = Skenea valvatoides | image = Skenea valvatoides 001.jpg | image_caption = Drawing of a shell of ''Skenea valvatoides'' | authority = (Jeffreys, 1883) | synonyms_ref = | synonyms = * ''Cyclostrema valvatoides'' <small>Jeffreys, 1883</small> (original combination) * ''Moelleriopsis valvatoides'' <small>(Jeffreys, 1883)</small> }}

'''''Skenea valvatoides''''' is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Skeneidae.<ref name="WoRMS">{{WRMS species|141534|''Skenea valvatoides'' (Jeffreys, 1883)||21 April 2010}}</ref>

==Description== The diameter of the shell attains 3.1&nbsp;mm. The rather solid, yellowish white shell is narrowly umbilicated. it is opaque, glossy, with a few irregular growth lines. The spire has a rather flattened apex. The suture is deep. The four whorls are well-rounded. The peristome is considerably expanded.<ref>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/77914 G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia] (described as ''Cyclostrema valvatoides'' )</ref>

==Distribution== This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean at bathyal depths off Portugal.

==References== {{Reflist}} * Jeffreys J. G., 1878–1885: ''On the mollusca procured during the H. M. S. "Lightning" and "Porcupine" expedition''; Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London; Part 1 (1878): 393–416 pl. 22–23. Part 2 (1879): 553–588 pl. 45-46 [ottobre 1879]. Part 3 (1881): 693–724 pl. 61. Part 4 (1881): 922–952 pl. 70-71 [1882]. Part 5 (1882): 656–687 pl. 49-50 [1883]. Part 6 (1883): 88–115 pl. 19–20. Part 7 (1884): 111–149 pl. 9-10. Part 8 (1884): 341–372 pl. 26–28. Part 9 (1885): 27–63 pl. 4-6 * Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). ''European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification''. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp.&nbsp;180–213

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Skenea Valvatoides}} valvatoides Category:Gastropods described in 1883 Category:Taxa named by John Gwyn Jeffreys

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