Anatoma flemingi

Anatoma flemingi
Type specimen from Te Papa Tongarewa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Lepetellida
Superfamily:	Scissurelloidea
Family:	Anatomidae
Genus:	Anatoma
Species:	A. flemingi
Binomial name
Anatoma flemingi (B.A. Marshall, 2002)
Synonyms [1]
Anatoma mantelli(S. P. Woodward, 1859) sensu A. W. B. Powell, 1979 misapplication Thieleella flemingiB.A. Marshall, 2002

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

Description

The width of the shell attains 3.5mm, its height 2.8mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off New Zealand, also on the Norfolk Ridge, Auckland Island,Antipodes Island and Chatham Rise.

References

1. Anatoma flemingi (G. (B.A. Marshall, 2002) . 20 July 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species .

• Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland
• Geiger D.L. & Marshall B.A. (2012) New species of Scissurellidae, Anatomidae, and Larocheidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) from New Zealand and beyond. Zootaxa 3344: 1–33. (13 June 2012)

External links

• Marshall, B. A. (2002). Some recent scissurellids from the New Zealand region and remarks on some scissurellid genus group names (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda). Molluscan Research. 22(2): 165-181
• Geiger D.L. & Marshall B.A. (2012). "New species of Scissurellidae, Anatomidae, and Larocheidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) from New Zealand and beyond" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3344: 1–33.
• New Zealand Mollusca: image