Liotella aupouria
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| Liotella aupouria Powell, 1937 |
Liotella aupouria is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cyclostrematidae.
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[edit] Distribution
This species is endemic to New Zealand's Three Kings Islands.
[edit] Habitat
This snail is found at depths of about 260 m.
[edit] Shell description
The shell is minute, white, discoidal, with a perfectly flat spire, and a wide umbilicus. The protoconch is low, convex, of one and a half smooth whorls. The post-nuclear whorls are round in cross section, very loosely coiled, scalariform, and densely axially ribbed, about 45 axials on the last whorl.
Shell height is up to 0.6 mm, and the width is up to 1.2 mm.
[edit] References
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
