Assiminea aurifera
| Assiminea aurifera | |
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| Shell of Assiminea aurifera (holotype) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Assimineidae |
| Genus: | Assiminea |
| Species: | A. aurifera
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| Binomial name | |
| Assiminea aurifera Preston, 1912
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Assiminea aurifera is a species of small operculate snail, a marine gastropod mollusc or micromollusc in the family Assimineidae. [1]
Description
The length of the shell attains 3.75 mm, its diameter 2.75 mm.
(Original description) The shell is turbinate (top-shaped), perforate (having an open umbilicus), thin, semitransparent, and dark brownish horn-coloured. It is minutely and densely freckled with golden yellow.It has 5½ whorls, which are regularly increasing, shouldered above, and convex. These whorls are also very minutely spirally striate. The suture is well impressed. The umbilicus is moderately wide and deep. The columellar margin is very oblique and obtuse-angled and lightly outwardly reflexed; The outer lip is simple and acute. The aperture is irregularly roundly ovate. [2]
Distribution
This species occurs in Kenya.
References
- ^ Assiminea aurifera Preston, 1912. 25 November 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- ^ Preston, H.B. (1912). "Diagnoses of new species of terrestrial and fluviatile shells from British and German East Africa, with the description of a new genus (Eussoia) from the Eusso Nyiro River, B.E. Africa". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 80 (1): 191–192. Retrieved 25 November 2025. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
External links
- Rowson, B.; Warren, B. H.; Ngereza, C. F. ( (2010). "Terrestrial molluscs of Pemba Island, Zanzibar, Tanzania, and its status as an "oceanic" island". ZooKeys. 70: 16.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - Gittenberger, E. & Bruggen, A. C. van. (2013). "Land snails of the islet of Misali, off Pemba Island, Zanzibar, Tanzania". oologische Mededelingen. 87 (3): 234.
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