Liotella aupouria

Taxobox
name = "Liotella aupouria"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Vetigastropoda
superfamilia = Trochoidea
familia = Cyclostrematidae
genus = "Liotella"
species = "L. polypleura"
binomial = "Liotella aupouria"
binomial_authority = Powell, 1937
synonyms =

"Liotella aupouria" 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 about 260 m.

hell description

The shell is minute, white, discoidal, with a perfectly flat spire, and a wide umbilicus. The protoconch is low, convex, of one and a half smooth whorls. The post-nuclear whorls are round in cross section, very loosely coiled, , and densely axially ribbed, about 45 axials on the last whorl.

Shell height is up to 0.6 mm, and the width is up to 1.2 mm.

References

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