Goweroconcha wenda, also known as the pale-zigzag 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]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Charopidae |
| Subfamily: | Charopinae |
| Genus: | Goweroconcha |
| Species: | G. wenda
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| Binomial name | |
| Goweroconcha wenda | |
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| Location of Lord Howe Island | |
Description
editThe shell of the snail is 1.9–2.4 mm in height, with a diameter of 4.2–4.5 mm. The colour is pale golden-brown with faint cream flammulations (flame-like markings) on some individuals. The shape is discoidal with a flat to slightly sunken spire, rounded whorls, impressed sutures, and with prominent, sinuous, moderately widely-spaced radial ribs. The umbilicus is widely open. The aperture is roundly lunate, angulate at base. The animal is unknown.[2]
Distribution and habitat
editThis very rare snail has been recorded on the island from Little Slope and the summit of Mount Gower.[2]
References
edit- MolluscaBase eds (2021). "Goweroconcha wenda Iredale, 1944". MolluscaBase. Flanders Marine Institute. Retrieved 2021-08-24.
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