Liotella indigens

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

Liotella indigens 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 between 10 and 180 m.

[edit] Shell description

The shell is about the same size and shape as Liotella polypleura but with stronger and far fewer axials, only nine to 12 on the last whorl.

Shell height is up to 0.55 mm, and the width is up to 0.95 mm.

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