Goweriana

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Goweriana
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Superorder: Eupulmonata
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Punctidae
Genus: Goweriana
Shea & Griffiths, 2010
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Location of Lord Howe Island

Goweriana is a monotypic genus of pinhead or dot snails that is endemic to Australia's Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea. [1]

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Species

Description

The shells of this very rare species are fragile and broken easily, making it difficult ti find entire adult shells to measure. The globose shell of a subadult had a diameter of 3.5 mm, with a flat spire, and was transparent golden-brown in colour. The sutures are impressed and the whorls rounded, with moderately spaced, bladed radial ribs. The aperture is roundly lunate with a closed umbilicus. The animal is unknown. [1]

Distribution and habitat

The main area of occurrence of the snail is on the upper slopes of Mount Gower, living in rain forest plant litter. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Hyman, Isabel; Köhler, Frank (2020). A Field Guide to the Land Snails of Lord Howe Island. Sydney: Australian Museum. ISBN   978-0-9750476-8-2.
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