Cirsonella micans

Cirsonella micans is a species of small sea snail with calcareous opercula, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Skeneidae.

Description

The height of the shell attains 1.13mm, its diameter 1.43mm.

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to New Zealand, occurring off South Island, Antipodes Islands and Chatham Islands

References

• Powell, A. W. B. (1931). Descriptions of some new species of recent Mollusca, mainly from the sub-Antarctic islands of New Zealand. Records of the Canterbury Museum. 3: 371–376.
• Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland
• Marshall, B. A., Bolstad, K. S. R. & Enderby, A. (2023). Checklist of extant Mollusca known from the New Zealand EEZ. In Walton, K., Marshall, B. A. & Spencer, H. G. (2023). Kingdom Animalia, phylum Mollusca (Clams, slugs, snails, cephalopods & others). Chapter 14 in Kelly, M., Terezow, M., Sim-Smith, C. & Nelson, W. (Eds) The marine biota of Aotearoa New Zealand. Updating our marine biodiversity. NIWA Biodiversity Memoir. 136: 221-237.