Margarella antipoda puysegurensis
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| Margarella antipoda puysegurensis Powell, 1939 |
Margarella antipoda puysegurensis is a subspecies of marine gastropod mollusc in the family Trochidae, the top shells.
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[edit] Distribution
This top shell is endemic to south west Otago in the South Island of New Zealand.
[edit] Habitat
It is found under stones and on seaweed in tidal rock pools.
[edit] Shell description
The shell is small, depressed-turbinate, the last whorl little expanded. The umbilicus is a slight crescentic cleft.
Shell colour is variable, narrowly or broadly banded in pink on a buff ground. There are bold zigzags axially streaked or netted in dark greenish-brown, and occasionally uniformly dark greenish-brown.
The maximum shell height is 5 mm, and width 5.5 mm.
[edit] References
- Powell A. W. B., William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
