Lissotesta bicarinata

Taxobox
name = "Lissotesta bicarinata"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Vetigastropoda
superfamilia = Trochoidea
familia = Cyclostrematidae
genus = "Lissotesta"
species = "L. bicarinata"
binomial = "Lissotesta bicarinata"
binomial_authority = Powell, 1940
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"Lissotesta bicarinata" is a species of very minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cyclostrematidae.

Its placement in the genus "Lissotesta" is provisional.

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand, found at Tom Bowling Bay at the north of the North Island.

Habitat

This snail is found at shallow depths and in beach sand.

hell description

The shell is very minute, of depressed- shape.

The shell height is up to 0.6 mm, and the width is up to 0.75 mm.

References

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