Scissurella bountyensis

Taxobox
name = "Scissurella bountyensis"
status =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Prosobranchia
ordo = Archaeogastropoda
superfamilia = Pleurotomariacea
familia = Scissurellidae
genus = "Scissurella"
species = "S. bountyensis"
binomial = "Scissurella bountyensis"
binomial_authority = Powell, 1933

"Scissurella bountyensis" is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Scissurellidae.

Distribution

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

Habitat

This scissurellid is found at depths of about 300 m.

hell description

The shell is minute, white, depressed-, constricted below the , narrowly umbilicated, and sculptured on the base with thin flexuous axials, 23 on the body whorl.

The shell height is up to 0.62 mm, and width 0.88 mm.

References

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