Zalipais parva

Taxobox
name = "Zalipais parva"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Vetigastropoda
superfamilia = Trochoidea
familia = Cyclostrematidae
genus = "Zalipais"
species = "Z. parva"
binomial = "Zalipais parva"
binomial_authority = Finlay, 1924
synonyms =

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

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand's Stewart Island.

Habitat

This snail is found at shallow depths on seaweed.

hell description

The shell is minute, thin, depressed-, semi-transparent, smooth,and umbilicated. The operculum is horny and circular, with a central nucleus.

Shell coloration is dull white.

Shell height is up to 0.75 mm, and the width is up to 1.05 mm.

References

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