Lissotesta bicarinata

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Lissotesta bicarinata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Orthogastropoda
Superorder: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Cyclostrematidae
Genus: Lissotesta
Species: L. bicarinata
Binomial name
Lissotesta bicarinata
Powell, 1940

Lissotesta bicarinata is a species of very minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cyclostrematidae.

Its placement in the genus Lissotesta is provisional.

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[edit] Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand, found at Tom Bowling Bay at the north of the North Island.

[edit] Habitat

This snail is found at shallow depths and in beach sand.

[edit] Shell description

The shell is very minute, of depressed-turbinate shape.

The shell height is up to 0.6 mm, and the width is up to 0.75 mm.

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