Assiminea parvula

Assiminea parvula
Shell of Assiminea parvula (syntype at the Natural History Museum, London)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Assimineidae
Genus:	Assiminea
Species:	A. parvula
Binomial name
Assiminea parvula (Mousson, 1865)
Synonyms
Hydrocena parvulaMousson, 1865 superseded combination (original combination) Hydrocena similisBaird, 1873

Assiminea parvula is a species of small salt marsh snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk, or micromollusks, in the family Assimineidae. ^[1]

Subspecies

• Assiminea parvula dinagatensis(Abbott, 1948)
• Assiminea parvula guamensis(Abbott, 1949)
• Assiminea parvula marshallensisAbbott, 1958
• Assiminea parvula nitidulaThiele, 1927
• Assiminea parvula parvula(Mousson, 1865)
• Assiminea parvula pseudoquadrasi(Abbott, 1948)
• Assiminea parvula pygmaea(Gassies, 1867)
• Assiminea parvula quadrasiMöllendorff, 1895

Description

The length of the shell attains 3⅓ mm, is diameter 2¼ mm.

(Original description in Latin) The shell is scarcely imperforate, ovate and elongately conical. It is finely striate, somewhat shiny, and uniformly reddish-horny. The spire is subconvex-conical. The apex is minute, and it is neither sharp nor blunt. The suture is linear and slightly impressed. The shell has five rather convex whorls. The body whorl is quite large, ovately rounded, convex below, and strongly rounded, but not angled, at the

Distribution

This brackish and terrestrial species occurs on islands of the Pacific Ocean and the South Seas.

References

1. Assiminea parvula (Mousson, 1865) . 1 December 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species .

• Brook, F. J. (2010). Coastal landsnail fauna of Rarotonga, Cook Islands: systematics, diversity, biogeography, faunal history, and environmental influences. Tuhinga. 21: 161–252
• Gerlach, J. ([2017]). Land and freshwater snails of Tahiti and the other Society Islands. Cambridge: Phelsuma Press. 67 pp.

External links

• Baird, W. (1873). Shells. Pp. 432-454, pls 36-42, In: Brenchley J.L. (ed.), Jottings during the Cruise of the H. M. S. Curaçoa among the South Sea Islands in 1865. London: Longmans, Green, and Co. p. 440. Retrieved 1 December 2025.
• C. C., Kahn, J. G. & Kirch, P. V. (2018). "Nonmarine mollusks from archaeological sites on Mo'orea, Society Islands, French Polynesia, with descriptions of four new species of recently extinct land snails (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Endodontidae)". Pacific Science. 72 (1): 95–123. Retrieved 1 December 2025.
• MNHN, Paris: image