Lissotestella rissoaformis
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| Lissotestella rissoaformis Powell, 1931 |
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Lissotesta rissoaformis Powell 1931 |
Lissotestella rissoaformis 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, found off eastern Otago, and around the Auckland Islands.
[edit] Habitat
This snail is found at depths of between 155 and about 550 m.
[edit] Shell description
The shell is minute, white, elevated-conic, rather solid, with convex whorls, a little flattened below the suture. The aperture is circular, continuous, thin edged, but the outer lip is strengthened by a slight variciform swelling. Sculpture is of very fine spiral lirae and more distant stronger spirals, three to four on the spire-whorls.
Shell height is up to 1.53 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
