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Eatonina micans Webster, 1905

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Littorinimorpha »  family Cingulopsidae »  genus Eatonina

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Eatonina micans

Author: Suter, H.

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Description

Shell minute, oval, subrimate, smooth, polished. Colour light reddish-brown. Spire conical, higher than the aperture, outlines slightly convex. Protoconch minute, of 1,5 convex and shining whorls. Whorls 4, convex ; base rounded. Suture impressed. Aperture circular. Peristome discontinuous, but the margins united by a parietal callosity, sharp, not thickened, whitish and semitransparent. Columella arcuate, very slightly reflexed. Operculum unknown.
Diameter, 1 mm. ; height, 1,5 mm.
Hab: Takapuna, type (W. H. Webster) ; Maloney's Reef, Hauraki Gulf (H. S.). Hohoura Bay (R. Buddie) ; near Little Barrier Island, in 20 fathoms (R. H. Shakespear) ; Titahi Bay, Cook Strait (Miss Mestayer) ; near the Snares, in 50 fathoms (Captain Bollons).
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 Eatonina micans (Webster, 1905)]
Data retrieved on: 23 November 2013

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