Margarella macquariensis
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| Margarella macquariensis Hedley, 1916 |
Margarella macquariensis is a species of marine gastropod mollusc in the family Trochidae, the top shells.
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[edit] Distribution
This top shell is endemic to Australia's Macquarie Islands, south of New Zealand.
[edit] Habitat
It is found under stones at depths of about 70 m.
[edit] Shell description
The shell is moderately large and solid, depressed-turbinate, smooth and polished, the last whorl slightly expanded. There is a long, narrow, crescentic, partly callus filled umbilical cleft.
Coloration is uniformly ash-purple, without markings; deeper water shells are pale orange-buff.
The maximum shell height is 11 mm, and width 11 mm.
[edit] References
- Powell A. W. B., William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
