Scissurella bountyensis

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Scissurella bountyensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Prosobranchia
Order: Archaeogastropoda
Superfamily: Pleurotomariacea
Family: Scissurellidae
Genus: Scissurella
Species: S. bountyensis
Binomial name
Scissurella bountyensis
Powell, 1933

Scissurella bountyensis is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Scissurellidae.

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[edit] Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand's Bounty Islands.

[edit] Habitat

This scissurellid is found at depths of about 300 m.

[edit] Shell description

The shell is minute, white, depressed-turbinate, constricted below the selenizone, narrowly umbilicated, and sculptured on the base with thin flexuous axials, 23 on the body whorl.

The shell height is up to 0.62 mm, and width 0.88 mm.

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