Lissotesta conoidea

Taxobox
name = "Lissotesta conoidea"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Vetigastropoda
superfamilia = Trochoidea
familia = Cyclostrematidae
genus = "Lissotesta"
species = "L. conoidea"
binomial = "Lissotesta conoidea"
binomial_authority = Powell, 1937
synonyms =

"Lissotesta conoidea" is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cyclostrematidae.

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand, found around the Three Kings Islands.

Habitat

This snail is found at depths of about 260 m.

hell description

The shell is minute, tall-conical, thin, semi-transparent, and white. The outline of the whorls is lightly convex, smooth, except for moderate oblique axial growth lines. The umbilicus is narrow but deep.

The shell height is up to 1.4 mm, and the width is up to 1 mm.

References

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