Angustassiminea nitida
| Angustassiminea nitida | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Assimineidae |
| Genus: | Angustassiminea |
| Species: | A. nitida
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| Binomial name | |
| Angustassiminea nitida (Pease, 1865)
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Angustassiminea nitida is a species of small operculate snail, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Assimineidae.[1]
Description
[edit | edit source]The length of the shell attains 2.5 mm, its diameter 2 mm.
(Original description in Latin) The ovate shell is pyramidal. It is shining, smooth and rather solid. It has five convex whorls. The body whorl is large and nearly equals half the length of the shell. The umbilical chink is perforate. The sutures are impressed and sometimes thinly margined. The aperture is ovate. The peristome (margin) is simple and non-continuous.[2]
Distribution
[edit | edit source]This terrestrial species has been found on the Cook Islands and on French Polynesia.[citation needed]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ a b Angustassiminea nitida (Pease, 1865). 5 December 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- Fukuda H. (2019). Assimineidae H. & A. Adams, 1856. Pp. 94–100, in: C. Lydeard & C.S. Cummings (eds), Freshwater mollusks of the world. A distribution atlas. 242 pp. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
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