Sinezona pauperata

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

"Sinezona pauperata" 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 18 m.

hell description

The shell is minute, thin, white, , with rounded slowly increasing whorls. Sculpture consists of weak, closely spaced, axial riblets, crossed at the periphery by four equispaced spiral threads. A feature of this shell is the oval-shaped foramen, with raised edges, but no .

The shell height is up to 0.4 mm, and width up to 0.5 mm.

References

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