Scissurella stellae

Taxobox
name = "Scissurella stellae"
status =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Prosobranchia
ordo = Archaeogastropoda
superfamilia = Pleurotomariacea
familia = Scissurellidae
genus = "Scissurella"
species = "S. stellae"
binomial = "Scissurella stellae"
binomial_authority = Fleming, 1948

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

Distribution

This species is endemic to Fiordland in the South Island of New Zealand.

Habitat

This scissurellid is found at depths of between 3 and 10 m.

hell description

The shell is minute, white, similar to "Scissurella fairchildi", but with a sunken spire, oblique axials, 15 on the body whorl, and spiral threads on the lower base and just within the umbilicus.

The shell height is up to 0.7 mm, and width up to 1.2 mm.

References

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