Cylichna zealandica

Cylichna zealandica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Euopisthobranchia

clade Cephalaspidea

Superfamily: Philinoidea
Family: Cylichnidae
Genus: Cylichna
Species: C. zealandica
Binomial name
Cylichna zealandica
T.W. Kirk, 1880

Cylichna zealandica is a species of sea snail or bubble snail, a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Cylichnidae, the chalice bubble snails or canoe bubble snails. [1]

Description

The height of the shell is 9 mm, its diameter 3.8 mm. The white, strong shell is smooth and faintly longitudinally striated. The aperture is produced above the spire.[2]

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to New Zealand and occurs off North Island at a depth of 60 m.

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