Paralaoma goweri

Paralaoma goweri
	Lord Howe Island
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Punctidae
Genus:	Paralaoma
Species:	P. goweri
Binomial name
	Paralaoma goweri; Iredale, 1944
	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]

Description

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]

Distribution and habitat

This snail is very rare and only found on the summit of Mount Gower.^[2]

References

^ Iredale, Tom (1944). "The land Mollusca of Lord Howe Island". Australian Zoologist. 10 (3): 299–334.
^ ^a ^b ^c Hyman, Isabel; Köhler, Frank (2020). A Field Guide to the Land Snails of Lord Howe Island. Sydney: Australian Museum. ISBN 978-0-9750476-8-2.

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[iredale44-1] Iredale, Tom (1944). "The land Mollusca of Lord Howe Island". Australian Zoologist. 10 (3): 299–334.

[h&k-2] Hyman, Isabel; Köhler, Frank (2020). A Field Guide to the Land Snails of Lord Howe Island. Sydney: Australian Museum. ISBN 978-0-9750476-8-2.

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