Brookula corulum

Taxobox
name = "Brookula corulum"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Vetigastropoda
superfamilia = Trochoidea
familia = Cyclostrematidae
genus = "Brookula"
species = "B. corulum"
binomial = "Brookula corulum"
binomial_authority = (Hutton, 1885)
synonyms = "Scalaria corulum" Hutton, 1885

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

Distribution

This species is endemic to the North and South Islands of New Zealand.

Habitat

This snail is found at depths of between 10 and 120 m.

hell description

The shell is minute, white, elevated-, with a convexly conical spire. Sculpture consists of fine equidistant axial ribs, about 28 on the last whorl, the interstices finely spirally striate. The umbilicus is narrow, and partly hidden by the columellar lip.

Shell height is up to 1.5 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