Munditia delicatula

Munditia delicatula
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Liotiidae
Subfamily: Liotiinae
Genus: Munditia
Species: M. delicatula
Binomial name
Munditia delicatula
Powell, 1940

Munditia delicatula is a minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Liotiidae, found only in New Zealand.[1]

Description

The height of the shell attains 0.5 mm, its diameter 1.5 mm.

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to Three Kings Islands, New Zealand.

References


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