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Lissotesta conoidea Powell, 1937

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Seguenziida »  genus Lissotesta

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Lissotesta conoidea

Author: Powell

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Description

Shell minute, conical, narrowly perforate, thin, semi-transparent white. Spire about 1 2/3 height of aperture. Whorls 5,5, including a small low convex protoconch of 1,5 whorls. Aperture comparatively small, squarish. Peristome sharp, discontinuous. Columella arcuate, slightly expanded and reflexed below, but excavated in the vicinity of the umbilicus, which is very small but deep. Outline of whorls lightly convex, surface smooth except for moderately strong oblique axial growth lines. Suture false-margined.
Height 1,4 mm.; diameter 1,0 mm. (Holotype).
Powell, A.W.B., 1937. New species of marine Mollusca from New Zealand.

Distribution

Habitat: Off Three Kings Islands, St. 933, 260 m.
Powell, A.W.B., 1937. New species of marine Mollusca from New Zealand.
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 Lissotesta conoidea Powell, 1937]
Data retrieved on: 22 November 2013

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