Zeidora maoria

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Zeidora maoria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Archaeogastropoda
Family: Fissurellidae
Genus: Zeidora
Species: Z. maoria
Binomial name
Zeidora maoria
Powell, 1937

Zeidora maoria is a small gastropod mollusc of the Family Fissurellidae endemic to New Zealand. It is found around New Zealand's Three Kings Islands, at depths of about 260 m.

The shell is very small, white and narrow, with subparallel sides, sculptured with fine dense divaricating radials, crossed by equally fine concentric lirae. The rectangular interspaces are twice as long as they are broad.

Maximum shell height is 0.9 mm, and length 2.9 mm.

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