Lodderena nana pooki

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Lodderena nana pooki
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda Subclass: Orthogastropoda Superorder: Vetigastropoda Superfamily: Trochoidea Family: Cyclostrematidae Genus: Lodderena Species: L. nana Subspecies: L. nana pooki
Trinomial name
Lodderena nana pooki Fleming, 1948

Lodderena nana pooki is a subspecies of minute sea snail or micromollusc, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cyclostrematidae.

Contents 1 Distribution 2 Habitat 3 Shell description 4 References

[edit] Distribution

This subspecies is endemic to Fiordland in the South Island of New Zealand.

[edit] Habitat

This snail is found at depths of between 35 and 45 m.

[edit] Shell description

This subspecies differs from the typical Lodderena species in having much weaker axial crenulations, and in the addition of a fourth spiral on the body whorl, but all four spirals become obsolete over the last quarter whorl.

The shell height is up to 0.64 mm, and the width is up to 0.8 mm.

[edit] References

• Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1