Truncatella scalarina

Truncatella scalarina
Two shells of Truncatella scalarina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Rissooidea
Family:	Truncatellidae
Subfamily:
Genus:	Truncatella
Species:	T. scalarina
Binomial name
Truncatella scalarina Cox, 1867 [1]
Synonyms
Margarita (Minolia) tasmanica Tenison-Woods, 1877 Minolia tasmanica Pilsbry, 1889

Truncatella scalarina is a species of very small land snail that lives next to seawater, a gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Truncatellidae.

Distribution and habitat[]

This small snail is endemic to southeastern Australia: New South Wales and Tasmania. It lives at and above the high tide level, in and under debris.

Description[]

The average shell length is 8 mm.

References[]

• Grove, S.J. (2018). A Guide to the Seashells and other Marine Molluscs of Tasmania web-site