Charopinesta sema explained

Charopinesta sema, also known as the Blackburn Island pinhead snail, is a species of land snail that is endemic to Australia's Lord Howe Island group in the Tasman Sea.

Description

The depressedly turbinate to discoidal shell of the mature snail is 1.1 mm in height, with a diameter of 1.8 mm, and a low, stepped spire. It is pale golden in colour. The whorls are rounded, with deeply impressed sutures and moderately spaced radial ribs. It has a roundedly lunate aperture and widely open umbilicus. [1]

Distribution and habitat

This extremely rare snail is known from a single empty shell from Blackburn Island. It may be extinct.[1]

References

Notes and References

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