Anatoma aupouria

Taxobox
name = "Anatoma aupouria"
status =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Prosobranchia
ordo = Archaeogastropoda
superfamilia = Pleurotomariacea
familia = Scissurellidae
genus = "Anatoma"
species = "A. aupouria"
binomial = "Anatoma aupouria"
binomial_authority = (Powell, 1937)
synonyms = "Schizotrochus aupouria" Powell, 1937

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

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand's Three Kings Islands.

Habitat

This scissurellid is found at depths of about 260 m.

hell description

The shells are minute, white, depressed-, with a very sharp, peripheral, double keel, enclosing the and terminal slit, and there are two broad spiral folds on the base. The surface is crowded with exceedingly fine radial riblets, and there are a few equally fine spiral striations towards the umbilicus.

The shell height is up to 0.9 mm, and width 1.25 mm.

References

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