Hipponix conicus wyattae

Taxobox
name = "Hipponix conicus wyattae"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
ordo = Sorbeoconcha
familia = Hipponicidae
genus = "Hipponix"
species = "H. conicus"
subspecies = "H. conicus wyattae"
trinomial = "Hipponix conicus wyattae"
trinomial_authority = (Powell, 1958)
synonyms = "Sabia wyattae" Powell, 1958

"Hipponix conicus wyattae" is a subspecies of small limpet-like marine gastropod mollusc in the family Hipponicidae.

Distribution

This subspecies is endemic to New Zealand, found off the east coast of Northland in the North Island.

Habitat

"Hipponix conicus wyattae" lives attached to dead mollusc shells..

hell description

The shell is small, cap-shaped, irregularly ovate, with the apex near to, or projecting beyond, the margin. Sculpture consists of 21 to 24 irregular, flexuous, broad, flat-topped, radial ribs, separated by deep linear grooves.

Shell coloration is reddish-brown to dull white, both externally and internally.

The shell height is up to 5.7 mm, length up to 16 mm, and width up to 12.6 mm.

References

* Powell A. W. B., "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1