Liotella indigens

Taxobox
name = "Liotella indigens"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Vetigastropoda
superfamilia = Trochoidea
familia = Cyclostrematidae
genus = "Liotella"
species = "L. indigens"
binomial = "Liotella indigens"
binomial_authority = Finlay, 1927
synonyms =

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

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand's Three Kings Islands.

Habitat

This snail is found at depths of between 10 and 180 m.

hell description

The shell is about the same size and shape as "Liotella polypleura" but with stronger and far fewer axials, only nine to 12 on the last whorl.

Shell height is up to 0.55 mm, and the width is up to 0.95 mm.

References

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