Liotella mackenae

Taxobox
name = "Liotella mackenae"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Vetigastropoda
superfamilia = Trochoidea
familia = Cyclostrematidae
genus = "Liotella"
species = "L. mackenae"
binomial = "Liotella mackenae"
binomial_authority = Dell, 1956)
synonyms =

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

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand's Chatham Islands.

Habitat

This snail is found at depths of about 240 m.

hell description

The shell is minute, white, sub-discoidal, similar to "Liotella rotula", except for the raised spire, and downward trend of the last half-whorl. There are 36 axials on the last whorl, but 12 of them are bunched on the last quarter-whorl. The interspaces have fine spiral lirae.

Shell height is up to 1.3 mm, and the width is up to 1.6 mm.

References

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