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Gyropena minuta Shea & Griffiths 2010

Gyropena minuta ( Inglês )

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Gyropena minuta, also known as the Mount Gower pinwheel snail, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the pinwheel snail family, that is endemic to Australia's Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea.[2]

Description

The shell of the snail is 0.9 mm in height, with a diameter of 1.9 mm. The colour is golden-brown. The shape is discoidal with a low spire, shouldered whorls, impressed sutures, and with prominent, moderately widely-spaced radial ribs. The umbilicus is widely open. The aperture is roundly lunate. The animal is unknown.[2]

Distribution and habitat

This rare snail is found at the southern end of the island on the summits and slopes of Mount Lidgbird and Mount Gower, inhabiting plant litter.[2]

References

  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.
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Gyropena minuta: Brief Summary ( Inglês )

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Gyropena minuta, also known as the Mount Gower pinwheel snail, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the pinwheel snail family, that is endemic to Australia's Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea.

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