Liotella rotula
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| Liotella rotula (Suter, 1908) |
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Liotia rotula Suter, 1908 |
Liotella rotula 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, from the Three Kings Islands to New Zealand's Sub-Antarctic Islands.
[edit] Habitat
This snail is found at depths of between 90 and 260 m.
[edit] Shell description
The shell is small, white, discoidal, with the spire flattened to slightly concave. The whorls are rounded in cross section and scalariform. Sculpture is of crisp axial ribs, varying between 16 and 35 on the last whorl. The surface is almost smooth, or with weak to moderately distinct spiral lirae.
Shell height is up to 1 mm, and the width is up to 1.7 mm.
[edit] References
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
