Cirsonella micans

Cirsonella micans
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Skeneidae
Genus:	Cirsonella
Species:	C. micans
Binomial name
Cirsonella micans (Powell, 1931)
Synonyms
Argalista micansA. W. B. Powell, 1931 superseded combination

Cirsonella micans is a species of small sea snail with calcareous opercula, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Skeneidae. ^[1]

Description

The height of the shell attains 1.13mm, its diameter 1.43mm.

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to New Zealand, occurring off South Island, Antipodes Islands and Chatham Islands

References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Cirsonella micans (A. W. B. Powell, 1931). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1774689 on 2025-10-26

• Powell, A. W. B. (1931). Descriptions of some new species of recent Mollusca, mainly from the sub-Antarctic islands of New Zealand. Records of the Canterbury Museum. 3: 371–376.
• Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland
• Marshall, B. A., Bolstad, K. S. R. & Enderby, A. (2023). Checklist of extant Mollusca known from the New Zealand EEZ. In Walton, K., Marshall, B. A. & Spencer, H. G. (2023). Kingdom Animalia, phylum Mollusca (Clams, slugs, snails, cephalopods & others). Chapter 14 in Kelly, M., Terezow, M., Sim-Smith, C. & Nelson, W. (Eds) The marine biota of Aotearoa New Zealand. Updating our marine biodiversity. NIWA Biodiversity Memoir. 136: 221-237.