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Anatoma regia (Mestayer, 1916)

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Lepetellida »  family Anatomidae »  genus Anatoma

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Anatoma regia

Author: Powell, A.W.B.

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Description

Shell depressed-trochiform, with a much lower spire than A. flemingi, much finer radial sculpture and a different inner-lip, that is broad below but tapers away to thin towards the umbilicus.
Height 2.0 mm., width 2.5 mm.
Powell, A.W.B., 1979. The New Zealand Mollusca: Marine Land and Freshwater Shells.

Distribution

New Zealand: North and South Islands. Off Three Kings Islands, 98 fathoms (type).
Powell, A.W.B., 1979. The New Zealand Mollusca: Marine Land and Freshwater Shells.
Author: Jan Delsing

Links and literature

EN Galli C.: WMSDB - Wolrdwide Mollusc Species Data Base July 10, 2013 [http://www.bagniliggia.it/WMSD/WMSDhome....] [as Anatoma regia (Mestayer, 1916)]
Data retrieved on: 21 July 2015

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