Assiminea cincta
| Assiminea cincta | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Assimineidae |
| Genus: | Assiminea |
| Species: | A. cincta |
| Binomial name | |
| Assiminea cincta (A. Adams, 1861) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Assiminia cincta A. Adams, 1861 (misspelling of genus) | |
Assiminea cincta is a species of small operculate snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Assimineidae.[1]
This is a taxon inquirendum.
Description
[edit](Original description in Latin) The shell is globularly cone-shaped, rather thin, and covered by a horny epidermis. The color is pale tawny. The spire is short. It has 4½ convex whorls. The body whorl is encircled by two reddish-brown transverse bands. The aperture is ovate-rounded. The outer lip is broad, callous, and tinted reddish-brown.[2]
Distribution
[edit]This species occurs in fresh waters in China of the estuary of the stream near the Great Wall; also in Japan.
References
[edit]- ↑ Assiminea cincta A. Adams, 1861. 29 November 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- ↑ Adams, A. (1861). "On some new genera and species of Mollusca from the north of China and Japan". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 3 (8): 307. Retrieved 28 November 2025.
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