Anatoma finlayi

Anatoma finlayi
Shell of Anatoma finlayi (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Lepetellida
Family:	Anatomidae
Genus:	Anatoma
Species:	A. finlayi
Binomial name
Anatoma finlayi (Powell, 1937)
Synonyms
Anatoma herbertiGeiger & Sasaki, 2008 Schizotrochus finlayi Powell, 1937

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

Description

The height of the shell attains 1.7mm, its width 1.9mm

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Indian Ocean and central Pacific and off New Zealand (Norfolk Ridge, Three Kings Island, Kermadec Islands); also reported off South Africa.

References

1. Anatoma finlayi (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
• Geiger D.L. & Sasaki T. (2008) Four new species of Anatomidae (Mollusca: Vetigastropoda) from the Indian Ocean (Reunion, Mayotte) and Australia, with notes on a novel radular type for the family. Zoosymposia 1: 247-164.
• 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.
• 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.

External links

• Powell, A.W.B. (1937). "New species of marine Mollusca from New Zealand". Discovery Reports. 15: 176. Retrieved 15 July 2025.
• Herbert, D.G. (2015). "An annotated catalogue and bibliography of the taxonomy, synonymy and distribution of the Recent Vetigastropoda of South Africa (Mollusca)". Zootaxa. 4049 (1). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4049.1.1.