Lamellaria cerebroides

Taxobox
name = "Lamellaria cerebroides"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Caenogastropoda
ordo = Sorbeoconcha
subordo = Hypsogastropoda
infraordo = Littorinimorpha
superfamilia = Velutinoidea
familia = Velutinidae
subfamilia = Lamellariinae
genus = "Lamellaria"
species = "L. cerebroides"
binomial = "Lamellaria cerebroides"
binomial_authority = Hutton, 1883

"Lamellaria cerebroides" is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Velutinidae.

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand including the Auckland Islands.

Habitat

This species lives at depths of between 55 and 75 m.

Description

The shell is much larger than "Lamellaria ophione", more globosely-rotund, with the spire coiling clearly visible from the aperture. The animal is 50 to 60 mm in length, the surface much wrinkled, reddish-brown, marbled with yellowish-grey.

The shell height is up to 23 mm, and width is up to 27 mm.

References

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