Crosseola errata

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Crosseola errata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Orthogastropoda
Superorder: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Cyclostrematidae
Genus: Crosseola
Species: C. errata
Binomial name
Crosseola errata
Finlay, 1927

Crosseola errata is a small sea snail or micromollusc, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cyclostrematidae.

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[edit] Distribution

This species is endemic to the east coast of Northland in the North Island of New Zealand.

[edit] Habitat

This snail is found at depths of about 20 m.

[edit] Shell description

The shell is small, very solid, turbinate, yellowish-white, fenestrated by spiral keels and axial riblets, the former the stronger, three keels on the spire-whorls and six on the body whorl, exclusive of a very massive rounded basal plait, separated from the inner lip by a narrow umbilical cleft.

The shell height is up to 2 mm, and the width is up to 1.9 mm.

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