Munditia manawatawhia is a minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Liotiidae.
Munditia manawatawhia | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
Order: | Trochida |
Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
Family: | Liotiidae |
Genus: | Munditia |
Species: | M. manawatawhia
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Binomial name | |
Munditia manawatawhia Powell, 1937
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Description
editThe height of the smooth shell attains 0.8 mm, its diameter 1.5 mm. This very small, white shell has a discoidal shape and wide umbilicus. It contains 2½ rapidly increasing whorls. The aperture is circular.[1]
Distribution
editThis marine species is endemic to New Zealand. It is known from the Three Kings Islands, New Zealand.[2]
References
edit- Arthur William Baden Powell (1979). New Zealand mollusca: marine, land, and freshwater shells. Collins. ISBN 0002169061.