Sinezona pauperata

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

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

Contents 1 Distribution 2 Habitat 3 Shell description 4 References

[edit] Distribution

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

[edit] Habitat

This scissurellid is found at depths of about 18 m.

[edit] Shell description

The shell is minute, thin, white, turbinate, with rounded slowly increasing whorls. Sculpture consists of weak, closely spaced, axial riblets, crossed at the periphery by four equispaced spiral threads. A feature of this shell is the oval-shaped foramen, with raised edges, but no selenizone.

The shell height is up to 0.4 mm, and width up to 0.5 mm.

[edit] References

• Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1