Charopinesta suavis explained

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

Description

The depressedly turbinate shell of the mature snail is 1.4 mm in height, with a diameter of 2.6 mm, and a low, stepped spire. It is golden amber in colour. The whorls are slightly rounded, with impressed sutures and fine, very closely spaced radial ribs. It has a roundedly lunate aperture and moderately widely open umbilicus. [1]

Distribution and habitat

This extremely rare snail is only been recorded by a single shell collected from the summit of Mount Lidgbird and 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.