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Lissotesta minutissima (E. A. Smith 1907)

Description

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VALVATELLA MINUTISSIMA.

(Pl. II., fig. 10.)

Shell very small, turbinate, very narrowly perforate, pellucid white, delicately spirally striated; whorls 4, very convex; aperture rounded; peristome thin, with the columellar margin a little thickened and expanded.

Length, 2.5 millim.; greatest diam., 2.

Winter Quarters, Feb. 20, 1902.

Only a single specimen, which, although so small, appears to be adult. The surface is a little worn, but the spiral striæ are quite evident in places. It differs from V. refulgens in its more elevated spire, smaller size, and sculpture.”

(Smith, 1907: 12)

Lissotesta minutissima

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Lissotesta minutissima is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, unassigned in the superfamily Seguenzioidea.[1]

Description

Distribution

This species occurs in the Ross Sea, Antarctica.

References

  • Engl W. (2012) Shells of Antarctica. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 402 pp.
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Lissotesta minutissima: Brief Summary

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Lissotesta minutissima is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, unassigned in the superfamily Seguenzioidea.

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