Angustassiminea nitida
| Angustassiminea nitida | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Assimineidae |
| Genus: | Angustassiminea |
| Species: | A. nitida |
| 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]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]This terrestrial species has been found on the Cook Islands and on French Polynesia.[citation needed]
References
[edit]- 1 2 Angustassiminea nitida (Pease, 1865). 5 December 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- ↑ Pease, W.H. (1865). "Descriptions of new species of land shells from the islands of the Central Pacific". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1864: 674.
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.