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| Uberella denticulifera (Marwick, 1924)
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Uberella denticulifera is a species of marine gastropod mollusc in the family Naticidae.
Distribution
This species is endemic to New Zealand.
Habitat
This species is found at depths of between 55 and 535 m.
Description
The shell is large for the genus, globular, white, polished, with irregular microscopic spiral triae. The umbilicus is narrow, half covered with the parietal callus, which has a shallow triangular depression, with a minute denticle on each side of it.
Height is up to 9 mm, and width up to 8 mm.
References
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1