Assiminea sinensis

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Assiminea sinensis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Assimineidae
Genus: Assiminea
Species:
A. sinensis
Binomial name
Assiminea sinensis
G. Nevill, 1880

Assiminea sinensis is a species of minute, salt-tolerant snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod molluscs, or micromolluscs, in the family Assimineidae. [1]

Description

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The length of this species attains 5 mm, its diameter 3 mm.

(Original description in Latin) The shell is imperforate, ovate-conical, and rather solid. It is shining, nearly smooth and chestnut-brown. It is marked by a slightly faint impressed line below the suture. The spire is elongated and conical, with a somewhat acute apex. It has 7½ rather flattened whorls. The body whorl is compressed, scarcely convex, and furnished with no keel. The aperture is small and nearly vertical. The margins are joined by a somewhat obsolete callus. The outer lip is thin. The inner lip is arched, thickened, and dark chestnut-brown. It is subangulate below. [2]

Distribution

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This species occurs in Hong Kong in brackish waters.

References

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  1. ^ Assiminea sinensis G. Nevill, 1880. 2 December 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
  2. ^ 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.
  • Connolly, M. (1939). A monographic survey of South African non-marine Mollusca. Annals of the South African Museum. 33: 1-660.
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