Assiminea geayi

Assiminea geayi
Shell of Assiminea geayi (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Assimineidae
Genus:	Assiminea
Species:	A. geayi
Binomial name
Assiminea geayi E. Lamy, 1909

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

Description

The length of the shell attains 1.75 mm, its diameter 1.5 mm.

(Original description in Latin) The thin shell is very small. It is smooth, rather shining and shaped like a Natica shell. It is narrowly but quite deeply umbilicate. The spire is short. It has four whorls, which are joined by an impressed suture. The body whorl is very large and rounded. The aperture is ovate, slightly angled above, and rounded below, with a continuous peristome (margin). The color is yellowish-tawny, with a reddish apex. ^[2]

Distribution

This species occurs off the Madagascan coast.

References

1. Assiminea geayi E. Lamy, 1909 . 26 November 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species .
2. Lamy, E. (1909). "Diagnoses de coquilles nouvelles recueillies par M. F. Geay à Madagascar (1905)". Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. 15 (6): 370. Retrieved 26 November 2025. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

• Dautzenberg P. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises. [Contribution to the study of the fauna of Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Fauna of the French colonies.]. Société d'Editions Géographiques, Maritimes et Coloniales. 3(4): 321-636, pls 4-7. Paris.
• Fischer-Piette, E., Blanc, C.P., Blanc, F. & Salvat, F. (1993). Gastéropodes terrestres prosobranches. Faune de Madagascar, 80: 1-281.