Sinezona pacifica

Sinezona pacifica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Scissurelloidea
Family: Scissurellidae
Subfamily: Scissurellinae
Genus: Sinezona
Species: S. pacifica
Binomial name
Sinezona pacifica
(Oliver, 1915) [1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Daizona pacifica Bandel, 1998
  • Schismope pacifica Oliver, 1915

Sinezona pacifica is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Scissurellidae, the little slit shells.[2]

Description

The height of the shell reaches 1 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off New Zealand, Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island and Macquarie Island; New South Wales and Southwest Western Australia.

References

  1. ↑ Oliver W.R.B. (1915) The Mollusca of the Kermadec Islands. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, 47, 509–568, pls. 9–12
  2. 1 2 Sinezona pacifica (Oliver, 1915) .  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 30 August 2010.
  • Bandel (1998). Mitt. Geol.-Pal. Inst. Univ. Hamburg 81 : 1-119
  • Jansen, P. (1999). The Australian Scissurellidae. La Conchiglia. 31 (291)
  • Geiger D.L. (2012) Monograph of the little slit shells. Volume 1. Introduction, Scissurellidae. pp. 1-728. Volume 2. Anatomidae, Larocheidae, Depressizonidae, Sutilizonidae, Temnocinclidae. pp. 729–1291. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Monographs Number 7


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