Paralaoma goweri | |
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Lord Howe Island | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Punctidae |
Genus: | Paralaoma |
Species: | P. goweri
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Binomial name | |
Paralaoma goweri | |
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Location of Lord Howe Island |
Paralaoma goweri, also known as the mountain 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 1.3 mm in height, with a diameter of 1.9 mm, and a raised spire. It is deep golden-brown in colour. The whorls are rounded and tightly coiled, with impressed sutures and moderately spaced radial ribs. It has a roundedly lunate aperture and moderately widely open umbilicus. [2]
This snail is very rare and only found on the summit of Mount Gower. [2]
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Paralaoma goweri | |
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Lord Howe Island | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Punctidae |
Genus: | Paralaoma |
Species: | P. goweri
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Binomial name | |
Paralaoma goweri | |
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Location of Lord Howe Island |
Paralaoma goweri, also known as the mountain 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 1.3 mm in height, with a diameter of 1.9 mm, and a raised spire. It is deep golden-brown in colour. The whorls are rounded and tightly coiled, with impressed sutures and moderately spaced radial ribs. It has a roundedly lunate aperture and moderately widely open umbilicus. [2]
This snail is very rare and only found on the summit of Mount Gower. [2]
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