Falsilunatia pisum

Taxobox
name = "Falsilunatia pisum"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Caenogastropoda
ordo = Sorbeoconcha
subordo = Hypsogastropoda
infraordo = Littorinimorpha
superfamilia = Naticoidea
familia = Naticidae
genus = "Falsilunatia"
species = "F. pisum"
binomial = "Falsilunatia pisum"
binomial_authority = (Hedley, 1916)
synonyms =

"Falsilunatia pisum" is a small deepwater species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Naticidae.

Distribution

This species is endemic to Australia's Macquarie Island, south of New Zealand.

Habitat

This species is found at depths of about 125 m.

Description

The thin shell is small, globose, and imperforate. The inner lip callus spreads broadly over both the parietal wall and the umbilical cavity.

Coloration is pale olive-buff.

The shell height is up to 3.5 mm, and width is up to 3.5 mm.

References

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