Lodderia waitemata

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

Lodderia waitemata is a minute sea snail or micromollusc, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cyclostrematidae.

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[edit] Distribution

This species is endemic to around Auckland in the North Island of New Zealand.

[edit] Habitat

This snail is lives on seaweed.

[edit] Shell description

The shell is minute, similar to Lodderia iota, but with the biangulate cords much stronger, and the axial threads fewer.

Shell coloration is pale buff.

The shell height is up to 0.49 mm, and the width is up to 0.51 mm.

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