Assiminea parvula is a species of small salt marsh snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk, or micromollusks, in the family Assimineidae.
Subspecies:
- Assiminea parvula dinagatensis <small>(Abbott, 1948)</small>
- Assiminea parvula guamensis <small>(Abbott, 1949)</small>
- Assiminea parvula marshallensis <small>Abbott, 1958</small>
- Assiminea parvula nitidula <small>Thiele, 1927</small>
- Assiminea parvula parvula <small>(Mousson, 1865)</small>
- Assiminea parvula pseudoquadrasi <small>(Abbott, 1948)</small>
- Assiminea parvula pygmaea <small>(Gassies, 1867)</small>
- Assiminea parvula quadrasi <small>Möllendorff, 1895</small>
Description
The length of the shell attains 3âÂ
 mm, is diameter 2ü mm.
(Original description in Latin) The shell is scarcely imperforate, ovate and elongately conical. It is finely striate, somewhat shiny, and uniformly reddish-horny. The spire is subconvex-conical. The apex is minute, and it is neither sharp nor blunt. The suture is linear and slightly impressed. The shell has five rather convex whorls. The body whorl is quite large, ovately rounded, convex below, and strongly rounded, but not angled, at the
Distribution
This brackish and terrestrial species occurs on islands of the Pacific Ocean and the South Seas.
References
- Brook, F. J. (2010). Coastal landsnail fauna of Rarotonga, Cook Islands: systematics, diversity, biogeography, faunal history, and environmental influences. Tuhinga. 21: 161âÂÂ252
- Gerlach, J. ([2017]). Land and freshwater snails of Tahiti and the other Society Islands. Cambridge: Phelsuma Press. 67 pp.
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