Munditia aupouria
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| Munditia aupouria Powell, 1937 |
Munditia aupouria is a minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cyclostrematidae.
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[edit] Distribution
This species is endemic to New Zealand, found at the Three Kings Islands.
[edit] Habitat
This species is found at depths of about 475 m.
[edit] Shell description
The shell is small, discoid, biangled, very solid, sculptured with six spiral keels, two of which being weak, crossed by strong regular axials. The umbilicus is about one third the major diameter of the base, its outer edge sharply crenulated. The entire surface of the shell, apart from the smooth protoconch of one planorbid whorl, is crowded with flexuous radial striae.
Shell coloration is white.
The shell height is up to 1.7 mm, and the width is up to 3.5 mm.
[edit] References
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
