Lodderia waitemata

Taxobox
name = "Lodderia waitemata"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Vetigastropoda
superfamilia = Trochoidea
familia = Cyclostrematidae
genus = "Lodderia"
species = "L. waitemata"
binomial = "Lodderia waitemata"
binomial_authority = (Powell, 1940)
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"Lodderia waitemata" is a minute sea snail or micromollusc, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cyclostrematidae.

Distribution

This species is endemic to around Auckland in the North Island of New Zealand.

Habitat

This snail is lives on seaweed.

hell description

The shell is minute, similar to "Lodderia iota", but with the biangulate cords much stronger, and the axial threads fewer.

Shell coloration is pale buff.

The shell height is up to 0.49 mm, and the width is up to 0.51 mm.

References

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