Micrelenchus caelatus mortenseni

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Micrelenchus caelatus mortenseni
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda Subclass: Prosobranchia Order: Archaeogastropoda Superfamily: Trochacea Family: Trochidae Genus: Micrelenchus Species: M. caelatus Subspecies: M. caelatus mortenseni
Trinomial name
Micrelenchus caelatus mortenseni (Odhner, 1924)

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

Contents 1 Distribution 2 Habitat 3 Shell description 4 References

[edit] Distribution

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

[edit] Habitat

This top snail is found from the intertidal zone to depths of up to 175 m.

[edit] Shell description

The Southern Islands form is small, solid, subglobose, sculptured with fine, even, granulated spiral cords, five on the penultimate.

Shell coloration is pale pink, the spirals continuously lined in dark pink.

The shell height is up to 5.5 mm, and the width is up to 5.2 mm.

[edit] References

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