Zalipais

Taxobox
name = "Zalipais"
fossil_range = Lower Pliocene to Recent


image_caption =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Vetigastropoda
superfamilia = Trochoidea
familia = Cyclostrematidae
genus = "Zalipais"
genus_authority = Iredale, 1915
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Zalipais" is a genus of minute sea snails or micromolluscs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cyclostrematidae.

Distribution

South eastern Australia and New Zealand.

Description

The shells are minute, discoid or depressed-, very thin, moderately to widely umbilicated, with a thin and sharp but continuous peristome, the whole aperture recurrent to the suture. The surface is smooth or delicately axially ribbed.

pecies within the genus "Zalipais"

* "Zalipais benthicola" Powell, 1927
* "Zalipais inscripta" (Tate, R., 1899)
* "Zalipais lissa" (Suter, 1908)
* "Zalipais parva" Finlay, 1924
* "Zalipais turneri" Powell, 1939

References

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