Acremodontina carinata explained

Acremodontina carinata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochaclididae, the false top snails.^[1]

Description

The shell attains a length of 2.17 mm, its diameter 1.98 mm.

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to New Zealand and occurs off Three Kings Islands and north-eastern North Island.

References

• Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979
• Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch

External links

• Powell, A. W. B. (1940). The marine Mollusca of the Aupourian Province, New Zealand. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 70: 205-248
• Marshall, B. A. (1995). Recent and Tertiary Trochaclididae from the southwest Pacific (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochoidea). The Veliger. 38: 92-115
• Herbert D.G. (2015). An annotated catalogue and bibliography of the taxonomy, synonymy and distribution of the Recent Vetigastropoda of South Africa (Mollusca). Zootaxa. 4049(1): 1-98
• Herbert, D.G. (2024). The Vetigastropoda (Mollusca) of Walters Shoal, with descriptions of two new genera and thirty new species. European Journal of Taxonomy. 923: 1–119.

Notes and References

1. Rosenberg, G. (2012). Acremodontina carinata (Powell, 1940). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=594277 on 2012-12-23