Assiminea sinensis
| Assiminea sinensis | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Assimineidae |
| Genus: | Assiminea |
| Species: | A. sinensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Assiminea sinensis G. Nevill, 1880
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Assiminea sinensis 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 5 mm, its diameter 3 mm.
(Original description in Latin) The shell is imperforate, ovate-conical, and rather solid. It is shining, nearly smooth and chestnut-brown. It is marked by a slightly faint impressed line below the suture. The spire is elongated and conical, with a somewhat acute apex. It has 7½ rather flattened whorls. The body whorl is compressed, scarcely convex, and furnished with no keel. The aperture is small and nearly vertical. The margins are joined by a somewhat obsolete callus. The outer lip is thin. The inner lip is arched, thickened, and dark chestnut-brown. It is subangulate below. [2]
Distribution
This species occurs in Hong Kong in brackish waters.
References
- ^ Assiminea sinensis G. Nevill, 1880. 2 December 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- ^ Nevill, G. (1880). "New species of brackish-water mollusks". The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Part II. 49 (3): 161. Retrieved 2 December 2025. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- Connolly, M. (1939). A monographic survey of South African non-marine Mollusca. Annals of the South African Museum. 33: 1-660.
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