Conjectura

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Conjectura Fossil range: Miocene to Recent
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda Subclass: Orthogastropoda Superorder: Vetigastropoda Superfamily: Trochoidea Family: Cyclostrematidae Genus: Conjectura Finlay, 1927
Species
See text.

Conjectura is a genus of very small sea snails or micromolluscs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cyclostrematidae.

Contents 1 Distribution 2 Description 3 Species within the genus Conjectura 4 References

[edit] Distribution

Members of this genus are endemic to New Zealand.

[edit] Description

The shells are very small but solid, depressed-turbinate, either smooth or spirally ridged, and with Crosseola-like basal keels or plaits.

[edit] Species within the genus Conjectura

• Conjectura atypica Powell, 1937
• Conjectura carinata Powell, 1940
• Conjectura glabella (Murdoch, 1908)
• Conjectura poutama Smith, 1962

[edit] References

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