Assiminea cincta

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Assiminea cincta
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Assimineidae
Genus: Assiminea
Species:
A. cincta
Binomial name
Assiminea cincta
(A. Adams, 1861)
Synonyms

Assiminia cinctaA. Adams, 1861 (misspelling of genus)

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Assiminea cincta is a species of small operculate snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Assimineidae. [1]

This is a taxon inquirendum.

Description

(Original description in Latin) The shell is globularly cone-shaped, rather thin, and covered by a horny epidermis. The color is pale tawny. The spire is short. It has 4½ convex whorls. The body whorl is encircled by two reddish-brown transverse bands. The aperture is ovate-rounded. The outer lip is broad, callous, and tinted reddish-brown. [2]

Distribution

This species occurs in fresh waters in China of the estuary of the stream near the Great Wall; also in Japan.

References

  1. ↑ Assiminea cincta A. Adams, 1861 . 29 November 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species .
  2. ↑ Adams, A. (1861). "On some new genera and species of Mollusca from the north of China and Japan". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 3 (8): 307. Retrieved 28 November 2025.PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .


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