Conjectura carinata
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| Conjectura carinata Powell, 1940 |
Conjectura carinata is a very small sea snail or micromollusc, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cyclostrematidae.
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[edit] Distribution
This species is endemic to New Zealand, found between Spirits Bay and Three Kings Islands.
[edit] Habitat
This snail is found at depths of about 90 m.
[edit] Shell description
The shell is similar to Conjectura atypica in shape, but smaller, with a stronger shoulder angulation, and the addition of sharply raised spiral keels, two on the first post-nuclear whorl, three on the penultimate, and five on the body whorl, as well as three closely spaced ridges bordering the umbilicus.
Height is up to 1.1 mm, and the width is up to 1.1 mm.
[edit] References
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
