Anatoma aupouria

Anatoma aupouria
Shell of Anatoma aupouria (specimen at the Auckland War Memorial Museum)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Lepetellida
Family:	Anatomidae
Genus:	Anatoma
Species:	A. aupouria
Binomial name
Anatoma aupouria (Powell, 1937)
Synonyms
Schizotrochus aupouria Powell, 1937

Anatoma aupouria is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc or micromollusc in the family Anatomidae. ^[1]

Description

The width of the shell attains 1.25mm, its height 0.9 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off New Zealand and off the Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island, Australia.

References

1. Anatoma aupouria (A. W. B. Powell, 1937) . 15 July 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species .

• Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN   0-00-216906-1
• Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
• Geiger D.L. (2012) Monograph of the little slit shells. Volume 1. Introduction, Scissurellidae. pp. 1-728. Volume 2. Anatomidae, Larocheidae, Depressizonidae, Sutilizonidae, Temnocinclidae. pp. 729-1291. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Monographs Number 7.

External links

• Powell, A.W.B. (1937). "New species of marine Mollusca from New Zealand". Discovery Reports. 15: 176. Retrieved 15 July 2025.