Brookula benthicola

Taxobox
name = "Brookula benthicola"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Vetigastropoda
superfamilia = Trochoidea
familia = Cyclostrematidae
genus = "Brookula"
species = "B. benthicola"
binomial = "Brookula benthicola"
binomial_authority = Dell, 1956
synonyms =

"Brookula benthicola" 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 in the South Island.

Habitat

This snail is found at depths of about 550 m.

hell description

The shell is minute, , thin, and sculptured with widely spaced, rather strong, rounded axials, about 15 on the body whorl. The surface has widely-spaced spiral lirae, obsolete from the upper half of the whorls.

Shell height is up to 1.2 mm, and the width is up to 1 mm.

References

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