Sinezona iota

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Sinezona iota
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Prosobranchia
Order: Archaeogastropoda
Superfamily: Pleurotomariacea
Family: Scissurellidae
Genus: Sinezona
Species: S. iota
Binomial name
Sinezona iota
(Hedley, 1904)

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

[edit] Distribution

This species is endemic to Stewart and Bounty Islands, and The Snares islands, of New Zealand.

[edit] Shell description

The shell is minute, opaque-white, with an exserted spire, moderately wide sloping shoulder area, sharp-edged prominent selenizone, with an ovate foramen, back from the outer lip, a narrow umbilicus, and nine sharp radials that do not cross the subperipheral constriction.

The shell height is up to 0.9 mm, and width 0.8 mm.

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