Acremodonta crassicosta

Acremodonta crassicosta is a species of minute, deep-water sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc or micromollusk in the family Ataphridae, the false top snails or false top shells.[1]

Acremodonta crassicosta
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A. crassicosta
Binomial name
Acremodonta crassicosta
(Powell, 1937)
Synonyms[1]

Thoristella crassicosta Powell, 1937 (basionym)

Distribution

This species is endemic to the deeper waters around New Zealand's Three Kings Islands.

References

  1. Bouchet, P. (2012). Acremodonta crassicosta (Powell, 1937). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=594674 on 2012-06-21
  • Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
  • Marshall, B.A. 1983: Acremodontinae: a new subfamily of the Trochidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). National Museum of New Zealand Records 2: 127-130 (p. 127)


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