Assiminea hungerfordiana

Assiminea hungerfordiana
Shell of Assiminea hungerfordiana (holotype)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Assimineidae
Genus:	Assiminea
Species:	A. hungerfordiana
Binomial name
Assiminea hungerfordiana G. Nevill, 1880

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

This is a taxon inquirendum.

Description

(Original description in Latin) The shell is without umbilicus. It is ovate-conical, solid, shining, smooth, and polished. It is entirely bright chestnut-colored, with a suture that is somewhat indistinct.

The spire is short, with an apex that is scarcely acute. It has six whorls, which are somewhat swollen and rather convex. The large body whorl is regularly ovuliform (egg-shaped), and it is noted below the suture by a somewhat faint impressed line.

The aperture is vertical. The margins are joined by a chestnut-colored callus. The outer lip is thin. The inner lip is thickened, straight, slightly backward-sloping, and somewhat abruptly angled at the base. ^[2]

Distribution

This terrestrial species occurs in brackish waters in Myanmar and in the Philippines.

References

1. Assiminea hungerfordiana G. Nevill, 1880 . 28 November 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species .
2. Nevill, G. (1880). "New species of brackish-water mollusks". The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Part II. 49 (3): 165. Retrieved 28 November 2025. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

External links

• Nevill, G. (1881). "New or little-known Mollusca of the Indo-Malayan fauna". The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Part II. 50 (3): 158. Retrieved 28 November 2025.