Charopinesta suavis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Punctidae |
Genus: | Charopinesta |
Species: | C. suavis
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Binomial name | |
Charopinesta suavis | |
Location of Lord Howe Island |
Charopinesta suavis, also known as the sweet pinhead snail, is a species of land snail that is endemic to Australia's Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea. [2]
The depressedly turbinate shell of the mature snail is 1.4 mm in height, with a diameter of 2.6 mm, and a low, stepped spire. It is golden amber in colour. The whorls are slightly rounded, with impressed sutures and fine, very closely spaced radial ribs. It has a roundedly lunate aperture and moderately widely open umbilicus. [2]
This extremely rare snail is only been recorded by a single shell collected from the summit of Mount Lidgbird and may be extinct. [2]
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Charopinesta suavis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Punctidae |
Genus: | Charopinesta |
Species: | C. suavis
|
Binomial name | |
Charopinesta suavis | |
Location of Lord Howe Island |
Charopinesta suavis, also known as the sweet pinhead snail, is a species of land snail that is endemic to Australia's Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea. [2]
The depressedly turbinate shell of the mature snail is 1.4 mm in height, with a diameter of 2.6 mm, and a low, stepped spire. It is golden amber in colour. The whorls are slightly rounded, with impressed sutures and fine, very closely spaced radial ribs. It has a roundedly lunate aperture and moderately widely open umbilicus. [2]
This extremely rare snail is only been recorded by a single shell collected from the summit of Mount Lidgbird and may be extinct. [2]
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