Conjectura poutama

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Conjectura poutama
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda Subclass: Orthogastropoda Superorder: Vetigastropoda Superfamily: Trochoidea Family: Cyclostrematidae Genus: Conjectura Species: C. poutama
Binomial name
Conjectura poutama Smith, 1962

Conjectura poutama is a very small sea snail or micromollusc, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cyclostrematidae.

Contents 1 Distribution 2 Habitat 3 Shell description 4 References

[edit] Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand's Stewart Island.

[edit] Habitat

This snail is found at depths of about 55 m.

[edit] Shell description

The shell is minute, white, glossy, translucent, very similar to Conjectura atypica, but without a shoulder angulation, and only one spiral cord bordering the narrow crescentic umbilicus.

Height is up to 1.96 mm, and the width is up to 1.77 mm.

[edit] References

• Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1