''Paolaura kloosi'' is a

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of very small

sea snail Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...

, a marine

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in the

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Granulinidae Granulinidae are a family of small to medium-large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Neogastropoda.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Granulinidae G. A. Coovert & H. K. Coovert, 1995. Accessed through: World Register of Mari ...

. The species was first described by Bozzetti in 2009.

Description

The length of the shell attains 1.1 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off

Flores Flores is one of the Lesser Sunda Islands, a group of islands in the eastern half of Indonesia. Including the Komodo Islands off its west coast (but excluding the Solor Archipelago to the east of Flores), the land area is 15,530.58 km2, and th ...

, Indonesia.

References

* Bozzetti, L., 2009. Paolaura kloosi (Gastropoda: Hypsogastropoda: Cystiscidae) nuova specie dall'isola di Flores. Malacologia Mostra Mondiale 64: 16-17 Granulinidae Gastropods described in 2009 {{Granulinidae-stub