Lodderena

Taxobox
name = "Lodderena"
fossil_range = Miocene to Recent


image_caption =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Vetigastropoda
superfamilia = Trochoidea
familia = Cyclostrematidae
genus = "Lodderena"
genus_authority = Iredale, 1924
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Lodderena" 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, the spiral sculpture consisting of very strong keels, more or less peripheral, and a surface cover of dense lirations.

pecies within the genus "Lodderena"

* "Lodderena catenoides"
* "Lodderena formosa" Powell, 1930
* "Lodderena janetmayae"
* "Lodderena minima"
* "Lodderena nana nana" Powell, 1930
* "Lodderena nana pooki" Fleming, 1948
* "Lodderena ornatus"

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/resource/172/taxon/17595042/ GBIF]
* [http://zipcodezoo.com/Key/Lodderena_Genus.asp ZipCodeZoo]