''Sinezona pacifica'' is a
species of minute
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
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk or
micromollusk
A micromollusk is a shelled mollusk which is extremely small, even at full adult size. The word is usually, but not exclusively, applied to marine mollusks, although in addition, numerous species of land snails and freshwater mollusks also ...
in the
family Scissurellidae, the little slit shells.
Description
The height of the shell reaches 1 mm. The width of the shell is greater than the height, with a low spire. The shells are white.
Distribution
This marine species occurs off
New Zealand,
Lord Howe Island,
Norfolk Island
Norfolk Island (, ; Norfuk: ''Norf'k Ailen'') is an external territory of Australia located in the Pacific Ocean between New Zealand and New Caledonia, directly east of Australia's Evans Head and about from Lord Howe Island. Together with ...
and
Macquarie Island;
New South Wales and Southwest
Western Australia.
References
* Bandel (1998). Mitt. Geol.-Pal. Inst. Univ. Hamburg 81 : 1–119
* Jansen, P. (1999). ''The Australian Scissurellidae''. La Conchiglia. 31 (291)
* Geiger D.L. (2012) ''Monograph of the little slit shells. Volume 1. Introduction, Scissurellidae. pp. 1–728. Volume 2. Anatomidae, Larocheidae, Depressizonidae, Sutilizonidae, Temnocinclidae''. pp. 729–1291. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Monographs Number 7
External links
*
Scissurellidae
Gastropods described in 1915
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