Gyropena minuta | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Charopidae |
Subfamily: | Charopinae |
Genus: | Gyropena |
Species: | G. minuta
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Binomial name | |
Gyropena minuta Shea & Griffiths, 2010
[1]
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Location of Lord Howe Island |
Gyropena minuta, also known as the Mount Gower pinwheel snail, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the pinwheel snail family, that is endemic to Australia's Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea. [2]
The shell of the snail is 0.9 mm in height, with a diameter of 1.9 mm. The colour is golden-brown. The shape is discoidal with a low spire, shouldered whorls, impressed sutures, and with prominent, moderately widely-spaced radial ribs. The umbilicus is widely open. The aperture is roundly lunate. The animal is unknown. [2]
This rare snail is found at the southern end of the island on the summits and slopes of Mount Lidgbird and Mount Gower, inhabiting plant litter. [2]
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Gyropena minuta | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Charopidae |
Subfamily: | Charopinae |
Genus: | Gyropena |
Species: | G. minuta
|
Binomial name | |
Gyropena minuta Shea & Griffiths, 2010
[1]
| |
Location of Lord Howe Island |
Gyropena minuta, also known as the Mount Gower pinwheel snail, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the pinwheel snail family, that is endemic to Australia's Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea. [2]
The shell of the snail is 0.9 mm in height, with a diameter of 1.9 mm. The colour is golden-brown. The shape is discoidal with a low spire, shouldered whorls, impressed sutures, and with prominent, moderately widely-spaced radial ribs. The umbilicus is widely open. The aperture is roundly lunate. The animal is unknown. [2]
This rare snail is found at the southern end of the island on the summits and slopes of Mount Lidgbird and Mount Gower, inhabiting plant litter. [2]
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