Fissurisepta manawatawhia

Taxobox
name = "Fissurisepta manawatawhia"
status =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Prosobranchia
ordo = Archaeogastropoda
superfamilia = Fissurelloidea
familia = Fissurellidae
genus = "Fissurisepta"
species = "F. manawatawhia"
binomial = "Fissurisepta manawatawhia"
binomial_authority = (Powell, 1937)
synonyms =

"Fissurisepta manawatawhia" is a species of keyhole limpet, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Fissurellidae.

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand, around Three Kings Islands.

Habitat

This keyhole limpet is found at depths of about 475 m.

hell description

The shell is minute, conical, oval, thin, with almost straight sides. The perforation is roughly diamond-shaped, almost central, with an incurved spiral nucleus at the top of the posterior slope, and internally with a narrow septum half covering the opening. Sculpture consists of radial series of minute triangular projecting scales.

Coloration is dull white.

The shell height is up to 0.8 mm, width up to 1.5 mm, and length up to 1.5 mm.

References

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