Anatoma aupouria
| Anatoma aupouria | |
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| Shell of Anatoma aupouria (specimen at the Auckland War Memorial Museum) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Lepetellida |
| Family: | Anatomidae |
| Genus: | Anatoma |
| Species: | A. aupouria
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| Binomial name | |
| Anatoma aupouria (Powell, 1937)
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| Synonyms | |
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Schizotrochus aupouria Powell, 1937 | |
Anatoma aupouria is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc or micromollusc in the family Anatomidae. [1]
Description
[edit]The width of the shell attains 1.25mm, its height 0.9 mm.
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Distribution
[edit]This marine species occurs off New Zealand and off the Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island, Australia.
References
[edit]- ^ Anatoma aupouria (A. W. B. Powell, 1937). 15 July 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
- Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
- Geiger D.L. (2012) Monograph of the little slit shells. Volume 1. Introduction, Scissurellidae. pp. 1-728. Volume 2. Anatomidae, Larocheidae, Depressizonidae, Sutilizonidae, Temnocinclidae. pp. 729-1291. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Monographs Number 7.
External links
[edit]- Powell, A.W.B. (1937). "New species of marine Mollusca from New Zealand". Discovery Reports. 15: 176. Retrieved 15 July 2025.