Lissotesta
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| Lissotesta Fossil range: Miocene to Recent |
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Lissotesta is a genus of minute sea snails or micromolluscs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cyclostrematidae.
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[edit] Distribution
Members of this genus are found in southeastern Australia and New Zealand.
[edit] Description
The shells are minute, thin, semi-transparent, rather featureless, of turbinate or conical shape, typically smooth or with a few spiral lirae within the umbilicus. The protoconch is small and rounded, of one to one and a half smooth whorls, the aperture is approximately circular, the peristome thin-edged, not variced, and usually adherent across the parietal wall.
[edit] Species within the genus Lissotesta
- Lissotesta ambigua Dell, 1956
- Lissotesta aupouria Powell, 1937
- Lissotesta benthicola Powell, 1927
- Lissotesta bicarinata Powell, 1940
- Lissotesta conoidea Powell, 1937
- Lissotesta contabulata
- Lissotesta decipiens Powell, 1940
- Lissotesta errata Finlay, 1927
- Lissotesta exigua
- Lissotesta granum (Murdoch and Suter, 1906
- Lissotesta liratula
- Lissotesta mammillata
- Lissotesta minutissima
- Lissotesta oblata Powell, 1940
- Lissotesta otagoensis Dell, 1956
- Lissotesta strebeli
[edit] References
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
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