Lissotesta aupouria

Taxobox
name = "Lissotesta aupouria"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Vetigastropoda
superfamilia = Trochoidea
familia = Cyclostrematidae
genus = "Lissotesta"
species = "L. aupouria"
binomial = "Lissotesta aupouria"
binomial_authority = Powell, 1937
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"Lissotesta aupouria" is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cyclostrematidae.

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand, found around the Three Kings Islands.

Habitat

This snail is found at depths of about 260 m.

hell description

The shell is small, thin, white, broadly , with canaliculate sutures, rather sagging whorls, and a very wide umbilicus. Sculpture consists of numerous, rather irregular axial threads, that become obsolete upon entering the umbilicus. The aperture is oblique D-shaped, with a continuous thin-edged peristome.

The shell height is up to 1.9 mm, and the width is up to 1.9 mm.

References

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