Assiminea savesi
| Assiminea savesi | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Assimineidae |
| Genus: | Assiminea |
| Species: | A. savesi
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| Binomial name | |
| Assiminea savesi (Crosse, 1888)
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Hydrobia savesi Crosse, 1888 (original combination) | |
Assiminea savesi is a species of minute, salt-tolerant snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod molluscs, or micromolluscs, in the family Assimineidae. [1]
Description
The length of this species attains 1½ mm, its diameter 0.75 mm.
(Original description in Latin) The shell is imperforate, pupiform, thin, and corneous. The spire is oblong, with a somewhat blunt apex. The suture is impressed. It has four slightly rounded whorls, which are encircled by a brown, nearly inconspicuous band. The body whorl nearly equals the height of the spire and is obscurely encircled by two brown zones. The aperture is ovate-pyriform andof the same color as the shell. The external zones pass inconspicuously through the interior. The peristome (margin) is continuous, somewhat thickened, and corneous. [2]
Distribution
This species occurs in New Caledonia in brackish and fresh waters.
References
- ^ a b Assiminea savesi (Crosse, 1888). 2 December 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- ^ Crosse, H. (1888). "Diagnoses molluscorum Novae Caledoniae incolarum". Journal de Conchyliologie. 35 (4): 304. Retrieved 2 December 2025. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
External links
- Solem, A. (1961). "New Caledonian land and fresh-water snails; an annotated check list". Fieldiana. Zoology. 41 (3): 434. Retrieved 2 December 2025.