Micrelenchus caelatus morioria

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Micrelenchus caelatus morioria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Prosobranchia
Order: Archaeogastropoda
Superfamily: Trochacea
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Micrelenchus
Species: M. caelatus
Subspecies: M. caelatus morioria
Trinomial name
Micrelenchus caelatus morioria
Powell A. W. B., 1933

Micrelenchus caelatus morioria is a subspecies of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Trochidae, the top shells.

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[edit] Distribution

This subspecies is endemic to New Zealand's Chatham Islands.

[edit] Habitat

This top snail is found from the intertidal zone to depths of up to 30 m.

[edit] Shell description

The shell is roundly turbinate in shape, solid, with strong smooth spiral cords, having linear interspaces, five cords on the early spire-whorls, six on the penultimate, and 14 on the body whorl and base.

Shell coloration is pinkish-white, the spirals continuously lined in scarlet, occasionally broken up into closely spaced dashes on the base.

The shell height is up to 7 mm, and the width is up to 6 mm.

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