Zeidora maoria

Taxobox
name = "Zeidora maoria"


image_caption =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
ordo = Archaeogastropoda
familia = Fissurellidae
genus = "Zeidora"
species = "Z. maoria"
binomial = "Zeidora maoria"
binomial_authority = Powell, 1937

"Zeidora maoria" is a small gastropod mollusc of the Family Fissurellidae endemic to New Zealand. It is found around New Zealand's Three Kings Islands, at depths of about 260 m.

The shell is very small, white and narrow, with subparallel sides, sculptured with fine dense divaricating radials, crossed by equally fine concentric lirae. The rectangular interspaces are twice as long as they are broad. Maximum shell height is 0.9 mm, and length 2.9 mm.

References

* Powell A W B, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1