Charopinesta suavis
Charopinesta suavis | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Punctidae |
Genus: | Charopinesta |
Species: | C. suavis
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Binomial name | |
Charopinesta suavis | |
Location of Lord Howe Island |
Charopinesta suavis, also known as the sweet 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 1.4 mm in height, with a diameter of 2.6 mm, and a low, stepped spire. It is golden amber in colour. The whorls are slightly rounded, with impressed sutures and fine, very closely spaced radial ribs. It has a roundedly lunate aperture and moderately widely open umbilicus. [2]
Distribution and habitat[]
This extremely rare snail is only been recorded by a single shell collected from the summit of Mount Lidgbird and may be extinct.[2]
References[]
- MolluscaBase eds (2021). "Charopinesta suavis Iredale, 1944". MolluscaBase. Flanders Marine Institute. Retrieved 2021-08-12.
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Categories:
- Charopinesta
- Gastropods of Lord Howe Island
- Taxa named by Tom Iredale
- Gastropods described in 1944
- Species known from a single specimen
- Punctoidea stubs