Lodderena minima

Lodderena minima
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Genus:	Lodderena
Species:	L. minima
Binomial name
Lodderena minima (Tenison-Woods, 1878)
Synonyms [1]
Liotia minimaTenison-Woods, 1878 Lodderia minimaTenison-Woods, 1878

Lodderena minima, common name the minute liotia, is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Skeneidae. ^[1]

Description

The size of this minute shell varies between 0.5 mm and 1.1 mm. The translucent white shell has a planorbiform shape with a flat or slightly raised spire. The shell contains about three whorls with 1½ whorl in the protoconch. The shell is devoid of ornament, except the regular spiral groove. It has, however, a remarkably thickened, smooth varix round the circular aperture, and a granularly margined, wide umbilicus. ^[2]

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off Queensland, southwards to Tasmania and South Australia.

References

1. Bouchet, P. (2012). Lodderena minima (Tenison-Woods, 1878). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=567608 on 2012-09-01
2. Tenison-Woods, J.E. 1878. On some new marine Mollusca; Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria v. 13-15 (1878-1879)

• Iredale, T. (1924). Results from Roy Bell's molluscan collections. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 49 (3): 179-279, pl. 33-36.
• Cotton, B. C. (1959). South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Adelaide. : W.L. Hawes. 449 pp., 1 pl.
• Jenkins, B.W. (1984). Southern Australian Liotiidae. Australian Shell News. 47 : 3-5

External links

• World Register of Marine Species
• "Lodderena minima". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
• Seashells of New South Wales: Lodderena minima