Assiminea dubiosa

Assiminea dubiosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Assimineidae
Genus:	Assiminea
Species:	A. dubiosa
Binomial name
Assiminea dubiosa (C. B. Adams, 1852)
Synonyms [1]
Truncatella dubiosaC. B. Adams, 1852

Assiminea dubiosa is a species of small operculate snail, a marine gastropod mollusc or micromollusc in the family Assimineidae. ^[1]

Description

(Original description in Latin) The thin shell is ovate-conical, transparent, yellowish-brown, smooth, and shining. The apex is rather sharp, and the spire is subconoidal (somewhat cone-shaped).

It has six convex whorls, with an impressed suture. The body whorl is short and ventricose (swollen/bulging). The aperture is broad and ovate. The outer lip is thin. The inner lip is slightly reflected below. ^[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in Panama and Guadeloupe.

References

1. Assiminea dubiosa (C. B. Adams, 1852) . 26 November 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species .
2. Adams, C.B. (1852). "Catalogue of shells collected at Panama, with notes on their synonymy, station, and habitat". Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York. 5: 543. Retrieved 26 November 2025. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

• Keen, A. M. (1971). Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Marine mollusks from Baja California to Peru. ed. 2. Stanford University Press. xv, 1064 pp., 22 pls.