Zalipais lissa

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Zalipais lissa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Orthogastropoda
Superorder: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Cyclostrematidae
Genus: Zalipais
Species: Z. lissa
Binomial name
Zalipais lissa
(Suter, 1908)
Synonyms

Cyclostrema lissum Suter, 1908

Zalipais lissa 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 the North and South Islands, and the Chatham Islands, of New Zealand.

[edit] Habitat

This snail is found at shallow depths on seaweed.

[edit] Shell description

The shell is minute, thin, discoid, with a narrow but deep umbilicus. The whorls are very faintly subangled both above and below, but the periphery is rounded. Sculpture is of fine thread-like flexuous axials, about 40 on the last whorl, rather crowded towards the outer lip. The outer lip is thin, strongly recurrent to the suture, and shallowly sinused at the basal subangle.

Shell coloration is pale buff.

Shell height is up to 0.6 mm, and the width is up to 1 mm.

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