Sinezona laevigata

Taxobox
name = "Sinezona laevigata"
status =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Prosobranchia
ordo = Archaeogastropoda
superfamilia = Pleurotomariacea
familia = Scissurellidae
genus = "Sinezona"
species = "S. laevigata"
binomial = "Sinezona laevigata"
binomial_authority = (Iredale, 1927)
synonyms = "Schismope brevis levigata" (Iredale, 1927)
"Sinezona laevigata" Finlay, 1927

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

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand.

Habitat

This scissurellid is found at depths of from shallow water to 240 m.

hell description

The shell is minute, thin, cream or white, ovate, with rapidly increasing rounded whorls, delicate radial and spiral sculpture, narrow or callus-filled umbilicus, and an ovate foramen, at the end of a very short and shallow . Sculpture consists of numerous spiral threads, conspicuous only on the base, and delicate, curved, radial threads, confined to the vicinity of the suture.

The shell height is up to 0.8 mm, and width up to 1 mm.

References

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