Lodderena nana pooki

Taxobox
name = "Lodderena nana pooki"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Vetigastropoda
superfamilia = Trochoidea
familia = Cyclostrematidae
genus = "Lodderena"
species = "L. nana"
subspecies = "L. nana pooki"
trinomial = "Lodderena nana pooki"
trinomial_authority = Fleming, 1948
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"Lodderena nana pooki" is a subspecies of minute sea snail or micromollusc, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cyclostrematidae.

Distribution

This subspecies is endemic to Fiordland in the South Island of New Zealand.

Habitat

This snail is found at depths of between 35 and 45 m.

hell description

This subspecies differs from the typical "Lodderena" species in having much weaker axial crenulations, and in the addition of a fourth spiral on the body whorl, but all four spirals become obsolete over the last quarter whorl.

The shell height is up to 0.64 mm, and the width is up to 0.8 mm.

References

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