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Pupatonia pupinella (Finlay, 1927)

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Littorinimorpha »  family Eatoniellidae »  genus Pupatonia

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Pupatonia pupinella

Author: Suter, H.

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Description

Shell minute, slender, smooth, subrimate, rather fragile, shining, and semitransparent. Sculpture consisting of microscopic growth-lines only. Colour white. Spire subcylindrical, nearly twice the height of the aperture ; outlines rather convex. Protoconch minute. Whorls 5 having a somewhat loosely coiled, and those of the spire swollen, appearance. Suture impressed and lightly margined. Aperture oval-rotund. Peristome continuous, broadly expanded. Columella short, broad, and also expanded. Operculum unknown.
Diameter, 0,66 mm. ; height, 1,94 mm.
Hab.—Whangaroa Harbour, type (C. Traill).
Suter, H. 1913. Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca.
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 Pupatonia pupinella (Finlay, 1927)]
Data retrieved on: 22 November 2013

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