Zalipais benthicola
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Zalipais benthicola is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cyclostrematidae.
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[edit] Distribution
This species is endemic to New Zealand, found off Otago in the South Island, and around The Snares.
[edit] Habitat
This snail is found at depths of between 90 and 310 m.
[edit] Shell description
The shell is minute, thin, depressed, but with rounded whorls. It differs from Zalipais lissa in having dense but weak and uneven growth lines, instead of regular axials, a wider umbilicus, and the aperture not so recurrent to the suture.
Shell coloration is buff, fading to semi-transparent white over the last half whorl.
Shell height is up to 0.5 mm, and the width is up to 0.9 mm.
[edit] References
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
