Truncatella scalarina

Truncatella scalarina
	Two shells of Truncatella scalarina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Rissooidea
Family:	Truncatellidae
Subfamily:	Truncatellinae
Genus:	Truncatella
Species:	T. scalarina
Binomial name
	Truncatella scalarina; Cox, 1867 [1]
Synonyms
	Margarita (Minolia) tasmanica Tenison-Woods, 1877; Minolia tasmanica Pilsbry, 1889;

Truncatella scalarina is a species of very small land snail that lives next to seawater, a gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Truncatellidae.

Distribution and habitat

This small snail is endemic to southeastern Australia: New South Wales and Tasmania. It lives at and above the high tide level, in and under debris.

The average shell length is 8 mm.

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