Lodderena minima
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Genus: | Lodderena |
| Species: | L. minima
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| Binomial name | |
| Lodderena minima (Tenison-Woods, 1878)
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Lodderena minima, common name the minute liotia, is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Skeneidae.[1]
Description
[edit]The size of this minute shell varies between 0.5 mm and 1.1 mm. The translucent white shell has a planorbiform shape with a flat or slightly raised spire. The shell contains about three whorls with 1½ whorl in the protoconch. The shell is devoid of ornament, except the regular spiral groove. It has, however, a remarkably thickened, smooth varix round the circular aperture, and a granularly margined, wide umbilicus.[2]
Distribution
[edit]This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off Queensland, southwards to Tasmania and South Australia.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Bouchet, P. (2012). Lodderena minima (Tenison-Woods, 1878). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=567608 on 2012-09-01
- ^ Tenison-Woods, J.E. 1878. On some new marine Mollusca; Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria v. 13-15 (1878-1879)
- Iredale, T. (1924). Results from Roy Bell's molluscan collections. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 49 (3): 179-279, pl. 33-36.
- Cotton, B. C. (1959). South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Adelaide. : W.L. Hawes. 449 pp., 1 pl.
- Jenkins, B.W. (1984). Southern Australian Liotiidae. Australian Shell News. 47 : 3-5
External links
[edit]- World Register of Marine Species
- "Lodderena minima". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
- Seashells of New South Wales: Lodderena minima