Brookula corulum

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Brookula corulum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Orthogastropoda
Superorder: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Cyclostrematidae
Genus: Brookula
Species: B. corulum
Binomial name
Brookula corulum
(Hutton, 1885)
Synonyms

Scalaria corulum Hutton, 1885

Brookula corulum 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 the North and South Islands of New Zealand.

[edit] Habitat

This snail is found at depths of between 10 and 120 m.

[edit] Shell description

The shell is minute, white, elevated-turbinate, with a convexly conical spire. Sculpture consists of fine equidistant axial ribs, about 28 on the last whorl, the interstices finely spirally striate. The umbilicus is narrow, and partly hidden by the columellar lip.

Shell height is up to 1.5 mm, and the width is up to 1 mm.

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