Lodderia

Taxobox
name = "Lodderia"
fossil_range = Miocene to Recent


image_caption =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Vetigastropoda
superfamilia = Trochoidea
familia = Cyclostrematidae
genus = "Lodderia"
genus_authority = Tate, 1899
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Lodderia" is a genus of minute sea snails or micromolluscs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cyclostrematidae.

Distribution

Members of this genus are found in southeastern Australia and New Zealand.

Description

The shells are minute, solid, depressed-, widely umbilicated, sculptured with strong spiral keels, their interstices either smooth, or with weak axial growth threads. The suture is indistinct and impressed. The aperture is circular, with a heavy peristome, more internally thickened than externally variced.

pecies within the genus "Lodderia"

* "Lodderia eumorpha cookiana" (Dell, 1952)
* "Lodderia eumorpha eumorpha" (Suter, 1908)
* "Lodderia formosa"
* "Lodderia humilis"
* "Lodderia iota" (Powell, 1940)
* "Lodderia lodderae" Petterd, 1884
* "Lodderia mandulana"
* "Lodderia minima"
* "Lodderia waitemata" (Powell, 1940)

References

* Powell A. W. B., "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
* [http://data.gbif.org/species/browse/taxon/14732913 GBIF]