Scissurella prendrevillei

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

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

Distribution

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

Habitat

This scissurellid is found at depths of about 10 m.

hell description

The shell is minute, white, depressed, similar to "Scissurella fairchildi", being widely umbilicated, but the axials are weaker and more numerous; about 20 on the body whorl.

The shell height is up to 0.8 mm, and width 1.07 mm.

References

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