Epitonium tenellum
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Epitonium tenellum | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scientific classification | ||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||
| Binomial name | ||||||||||||||||
| Epitonium tenellum (Hutton, 1885) |
||||||||||||||||
| Synonyms | ||||||||||||||||
|
Scalaria lineolata Hutton, 1873 |
Epitonium tenellum is a species of small predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Epitoniidae, the wentletraps.
Contents |
[edit] Distribution
This wentletrap is endemic to south east Australia and the north east coast of the North Island of New Zealand.
[edit] Habitat
This species is found in silty sand, in sheltered shallow waters.
[edit] Shell description
The shell is thin, fragile, acuminate, sculptured with many narrow lamellar axial ribs or costae.
The shell coloration is a light yellowish-brown, and a darker brown, narrow subsutural spiral band that continues across the base, making two bands on the last whorl.
Shell height is up to 22 mm, and width 10.5 mm.
[edit] References
- Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
