Lissotestella tenuilirata

Taxobox
name = "Lissotestella tenuilirata"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Vetigastropoda
superfamilia = Trochoidea
familia = Cyclostrematidae
genus = "Lissotestella"
species = "L. tenuilirata"
binomial = "Lissotestella tenuilirata"
binomial_authority = Powell, 1931
synonyms = "Lissotesta tenuilirata" Powell 1931

"Lissotestella tenuilirata" is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cyclostrematidae.

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand, found off eastern Otago, and around the Auckland Islands and the Chatham Islands.

Habitat

This snail is found at depths of between 155 and about 550 m.

hell description

The shell is minute, rather solid, with evenly convex whorls, broader than "Lissotestella rissoaformis", and with more numerous spiral lirae. The outer lip is strengthened by a swelling.

Shell height is up to 1.46 mm, and the width is up to 1.46 mm.

References

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