Uberella alacris

Taxobox
name = "Uberella alacris"


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status =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
ordo = Mesogastropoda
familia = Naticidae
genus = "Uberella"
species = "U. alacris"
binomial = "Uberella alacris"
binomial_authority = Dell, 1956

"Uberella alacris" is a species of marine gastropod mollusc in the family Naticidae.

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand, found off the coast of Otago.

Habitat

This species is found at depths of between 475 and 550 m.

Description

The shell is small, with a flattened spire, smooth, and with the width greater than the height.

Coloration is white, with a few indistinct axial bands of light brown.

Height is up to 4.7 mm, and width up to 5.1 mm.

References

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