Margarella antipoda antipoda

Taxobox
name = "Margarella antipoda antipoda"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Prosobranchia
ordo = Archaeogastropoda
superfamilia = Trochacea
familia = Trochidae
genus = "Margarella"
species = "M. antipoda"
subspecies = "M. antipoda antipoda"
trinomial = "Margarella antipoda antipoda"
trinomial_authority = (Hombron and Jacquinot, 1854)
synonyms = "Margarella antipoda" Hombron and Jacquinot, 1854

"Margarella antipoda antipoda" is a subspecies of marine gastropod mollusc in the family Trochidae, the top shells.

Distribution

This top shell is endemic to New Zealand's sub-Antarctic islands.

Habitat

It is found in rock pools on small algae.

hell description

The shell is rather small, globosely turbinate, thin, minutely perforate to imperforate.

Coloration is dull purplish-black, and greenish iridescent within the aperture. The protoconch and early whorls are whitish with two spiral pink lines.

The maximum shell height is 8 mm, and width 8.5 mm.

References

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