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Assiminea punctum

Assiminea punctum is a species of minute, salt-tolerant snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod molluscs, or micromolluscs, in the family Assimineidae.

Description

The length of this species attains 3 mm.

(Original description in Latin) The shell is very minute and scarcely rimose (having a very slight chink). It is ovate-conoidal, very smooth, shining, and horn-green.

The spire is elongated, with a somewhat acute apex. It has five convex whorls, which are joined by a black-margined suture. The body whorl is inflated and does not equal half the length of the shell.

The aperture is acutely oval, with straight margins, and it is brown-edged internally.

Distribution

This species occurs on Mayotte, Indian Ocean.

References

  • Fischer-Piette, E., Blanc, C.P., Blanc, F. & Salvat, F. (1993). Gastéropodes terrestres prosobranches. Faune de Madagascar, 80: 1-281.
  • Breure, A.S.H., Audibert, C. & Ablett, J.D. (2018). Pierre Marie Arthur Morelet (1809-1892) and his contributions to malacology. Leiden: Nederlandse Malacologische Vereniging. 544 pp.
  • Fischer-Piette, E. & Vukadinovic, D. (1974). Les Mollusques terrestres des Iles Comores. Mémoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Nouvelle Série, Série A, Zoologie, 84: 1-76, 1 plate. Paris.