Omalogyra fusca
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| Omalogyra fusca Suter, 1908 |
Omalogyra fusca is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Omalogyridae.
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[edit] Distribution
This species is endemic to the North and South Islands of New Zealand.
[edit] Habitat
These shells are usually found on seaweed.
[edit] Shell description
The shell is minute, planorbiform, thin and fragile, and slightly shining. Sculpture consists of very fine spiral striae, faintly reticulated by growth lines. The spire is depressed, with two and three quarter whorls, rapidly increasing.
Coloration is brownish with a few whitish radial streaks.
Height is up to 0.5 mm, and width up to 1 mm.
[edit] References
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
