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Semilaoma laevis

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Semilaoma laevis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Punctidae
Genus: Semilaoma
Species:
S. laevis
Binomial name
Semilaoma laevis
Shea & Griffiths, 2010[1]
Location of Lord Howe Island

Semilaoma laevis, also known as the smooth pinhead snail, is a tiny species of land snail that is endemic to Australia's Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea.[2]

Description

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The depressedly turbinate shell of the mature snail is 0.7–0.8 mm in height, with a diameter of 1.2–1.3 mm, and a low spire. It is pale yellow to white in colour. The whorls are rounded. The sutures are impressed, with closely-spaced radial ribs. It has a roundly lunate aperture, and a narrowly open umbilicus. The animal is unknown.[2]

Distribution and habitat

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The snail is common and widespread across the island, living in lowland forest, rainforest and scrub.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Stanisic, J; Shea, M; Potter, D; Griffiths, O (2010). Australian land snails. Volume 1. A field guide to eastern Australian species. Brisbane: Queensland Museum.
  2. ^ 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.