Hinea brasiliana

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Hinea brasiliana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Orthogastropoda
Infraclass: Apogastropoda
Superorder: Caenogastropoda
Order: Sorbeoconcha
Family: Planaxidae
Genus: Hinea
Species: H. brasiliana
Binomial name
Hinea brasiliana
(Lamarck, 1822)
Synonyms

Buccinum brasilianum Lamarck, 1822
Planaxis mollis Sowerby, 1823
Planaxis brazilianus Suter, 1913

Hinea brasiliana is a species of marine gastropod mollusc in the family Planaxidae.

[edit] Distribution

This species is endemic to Australia including Lord Howe Island, and northern New Zealand including the Kermadec Islands.

[edit] Description

The shell is very solid, bucciniform, white, under a thick yellowish-brown periostracum. The aperture is narrowly ovate, much thickened within the outer lip, and ending below in a deeply channelled but very shallowly notched anterior canal.

Height is up to 18.5 mm, and width 8.5 mm.

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