Lissotestella tryphenensis

Taxobox
name = "Lissotestella tryphenensis"


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

"Lissotestella tryphenensis" 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 Great Barrier Island.

Habitat

This snail is found at depths of between 9 and about 11 m.

hell description

The shell is large for the genus, rather solid, elevated-, narrowly umbilicated, the outer lip with a slight swelling. Sculpture consists of spiral lirae, a secondary spiral in each interspace on spire-whorls; the primary spirals are four to six on the penultimate, and about 15 on the body whorl and base.

Coloration is light brownish, possibly due to staining.

Shell height is up to 2.23 mm, and the width is up to 2.25 mm.

References

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