Gyropena verans, also known as the sunken-spired 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]
The shell of the snail is 1.3–1.5 mm in height, with a diameter of 2.7–2.9 mm. The colour is pale fawn with irregular brown flammulations (flame-like markings). The shape is discoidal with a sunken spire, shouldered whorls, impressed sutures, and with prominent, closely-spaced radial ribs. The umbilicus is widely open. The aperture is roundly lunate. The animal is unknown.[2]
This very rare snail occurs on the summits and slopes of Mount Lidgbird and Mount Gower, inhabiting plant litter.[2]
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Gyropena verans, also known as the sunken-spired 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.