Homalopoma micans

Taxobox
name = "Homalopoma micans"


image_caption =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Prosobranchia
ordo = Archaeogastropoda
superfamilia = Trochacea
familia = Turbinidae
genus = "Homalopoma"
species = "H. micans"
binomial = "Homalopoma micans"
binomial_authority = (Powell, 1931)
synonyms = "Argalista micans" Powell, 1931

"Homalopoma micans" is a species of minute deepwater sea snail with a calcareous operculum, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand's Southern Islands.

Habitat

This shell is found at depths of between 90 and 155 m.

hell description

The shell is very small, depressed, solid, smooth and polished. The aperture is circular, effuse at termination of the columellar lip. The umbilicus is wide, bordered by a carina, and with two further spirals within.

Shell coloration is white.

The shell height is up to 1.13 mm, and the width is up to 1.43 mm.

References

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