Skenea areolata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Skeneidae.
Description The size of the shell attains 2 mm. The solid, semipellucid, white shell is widely, perspectively umbilicated. It is finely spirally lirate, crossed by close incremental stripe. The three whorls are convex, and moderately increasing in size. The aperture is orbicular. The peristome is thin.G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
Distribution This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Iceland and arctic Norway.
References
Sars G. O., 1878: Bidrag til kundskaben om Norges arktiske fauna: 1. Mollusca regionis Arcticae Norvegiae. Oversigt over de i Norges arktiske region forekommende bloddyr; Christiania, A.W. Brøgger XV + 466 p., 34 pl
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