Zalipais
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| Zalipais Fossil range: Lower Pliocene to Recent |
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Zalipais is a genus of minute sea snails or micromolluscs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cyclostrematidae.
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[edit] Distribution
South eastern Australia and New Zealand.
[edit] Description
The shells are minute, discoid or depressed-turbinate, very thin, moderately to widely umbilicated, with a thin and sharp but continuous peristome, the whole aperture recurrent to the suture. The surface is smooth or delicately axially ribbed.
[edit] Species within the genus Zalipais
- Zalipais benthicola Powell, 1927
- Zalipais inscripta (Tate, R., 1899)
- Zalipais lissa (Suter, 1908)
- Zalipais parva Finlay, 1924
- Zalipais turneri Powell, 1939
[edit] References
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
