Asteracmea suteri

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Asteracmea suteri
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Patellogastropoda
Suborder: Nacellina
Superfamily: Lottioidea
Family: Acmaeidae
Genus: Asteracmea
Species: A. suteri
Binomial name
Asteracmea suteri
(Iredale, 1915)
Synonyms

Acmaea roseoradiata Suter, 1907
Notoacmea suteri Iredale, 1915

Asteracmea suteri is a species of sea snail or true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Acmaeidae.

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[edit] Distribution

This limpet is endemic to New Zealand including The Snares.

[edit] Habitat

This species is found at depths of between 30 and 90 m.

[edit] Description

The shell is minute, oval, conical, smooth, except for about 20 very indistinct low radial riblets, visible only on the lower half of the shell.

Coloration of the upper half of the shell is light pinkish-brown, the lower part white, irregularly rayed with pink. The interior is irregularly pinkish maculated, and with radials showing through around the periphery.

Length is up to 3.5 mm, width up to 2.5 mm, and height up to 1.5 mm.

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