Omphalorissa purchasi

Omphalorissa purchasi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Neritimorpha

clade Cycloneritimorpha

Superfamily: Hydrocenoidea
Family: Hydrocenidae
Genus: Omphalorissa
Species: O. purchasi
Binomial name
Omphalorissa purchasi
(Pfeiffer, 1862)
Synonyms

Hydrocena purchasi Pfeiffer, 1862

Omphalorissa purchasi is a species of small land snail, a terrestrial gastropod mollusc in the family Hydrocenidae.

The type specimen is stored in the Imperial Natural History Museum, Vienna.[1]

Description

The shell is minute, globosely conical, translucid, imperforate (no umbilicus. The sculpture consists of very fine growth-striae only. The colour is horny-fuscous. The epidermis is thin and shiny. The spire is conical, and rather obtuse. The protoconch is minute, strongly convex, smooth. The shell has 4-5 convex whorls.[1] The last whorl is slightly greater than one-third of the height of the shell. The base is convex. The suture is impressed. The aperture is a little oblique, subcircular. The peristome is simple, straight. The columella is slightly concave, white. The inner lip is spread over the umbilicus, sealing it up more or less completely. The callus on the penultimate whorl unites the margins, and is conspicuous.[1]

The width of the shell is 1 mm. The height of the shell is 2 mm.[1]

The radula was described by Suter.[2]

Distribution

Omphalorissa purchasi is found in New Zealand.

Habitat

This species is found in native bush in very moist situations, near creeks or swamps, under stones, rotten wood, etc.[1]

References

This article incorporates public domain text from the reference.[1]

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Suter H. (1913). Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca. Wellington, 1120 pp. page 175-176.
  2. ↑ Suter H. (????). T.N.Z.I., xxiv, 301, pi. 23, f. 58.

Further reading

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