Scissurella fairchildi

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

Scissurella fairchildi 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, with whorls evenly rounded, the umbilicus wide, and the axials fewer and stronger than in Scissurella bountyensis; 14 on the body whorl.

The shell height is up to 0.65 mm, and width up to 1 mm.

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