Amphithalamus maoria

Amphithalamus maoria
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Anabathridae
Genus:	Amphithalamus
Species:	A. maoria
Binomial name
Amphithalamus maoria (Ponder, 1968)
Synonyms [1]
Notoscrobs (Microfossa) incidata maoriaPonder, 1968 (superseded combination)

Amphithalamus maoria is a species of minute sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family Anabathridae. ^[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 1.56 mm, its diameter 0.91 mm.

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand and occurs off North Island.

References

1. Amphithalamus maoria (Ponder, 1968) . 22 May 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species .

• Powell, A.W.B. (1979). New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells. Auckland: Collins. p. 109.
• Ponder, W.F. (1968). "Notes on New Zealand prosobranchs with descriptions of new species and subspecies". Records of the Dominion Museum. 6: 119.
• Marshall, B. A., Bolstad, K. S. R. & Enderby, A. (2023). "Checklist of extant Mollusca known from the New Zealand EEZ. In Walton, K., Marshall, B. A. & Spencer, H. G. (2023). Kingdom Animalia, phylum Mollusca (Clams, slugs, snails, cephalopods & others). Chapter 14 in Kelly, M., Terezow, M., Sim-Smith, C. & Nelson, W. (Eds) The marine biota of Aotearoa New Zealand. Updating our marine biodiversity". NIWA Biodiversity Memoir. 136: 227.

External links

• New Zealand Mollusca: image