Brookula benthicola
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| Brookula benthicola Dell, 1956 |
Brookula benthicola is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cyclostrematidae.
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[edit] Distribution
This species is endemic to New Zealand, found off eastern Otago in the South Island.
[edit] Habitat
This snail is found at depths of about 550 m.
[edit] Shell description
The shell is minute, turbinate, thin, and sculptured with widely spaced, rather strong, rounded axials, about 15 on the body whorl. The surface has widely-spaced spiral lirae, obsolete from the upper half of the whorls.
Shell height is up to 1.2 mm, and the width is up to 1 mm.
[edit] References
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
