Crosseola vesca
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| Crosseola vesca (Finlay, 1927) |
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Crossea labiata Suter, 1913 |
Crosseola vesca is a small sea snail or micromollusc, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cyclostrematidae.
[edit] Distribution
This species is endemic to the North Island of New Zealand.
[edit] Shell description
The shell is small, thin, fragile, elogate-turbinate, with evenly convex whorls, sculptured with numerous linear spiral grooves, about eight on the penultimate and 30 on the body whorl. The umbilicus is crescentic and moderately wide.
The shell height is up to 3.3 mm, and the width is up to 2.6 mm.
[edit] References
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
