Sinezona subantarctica

Taxobox
name = "Sinezona subantarctica"
status =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Prosobranchia
ordo = Archaeogastropoda
superfamilia = Pleurotomariacea
familia = Scissurellidae
genus = "Sinezona"
species = "S. subantarctica"
binomial = "Sinezona subantarctica"
binomial_authority = (Hedley, 1916)
synonyms = "Schismope subantarctica" Hedley, 1916

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

Distribution

This species is endemic to Australia's Macquarie Islands, south of New Zealand.

hell description

The shell is minute, white, ovate, with rounded rapidly increasing whorls, rather similar to "Sinezona laevigata" but with different and weaker sculpture, and a lens-shaped foramen, without a . Sculpture consists of fine spiral threads, decussed by finer and closer radial threads.

The shell height is up to 0.75 mm, and width up to 1.15 mm.

References

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