Monterissa gowerensis

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| status = VU | status_system = IUCN2.3

| taxon = Monterissa gowerensis

| authority = Iredale, 1944

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| range_map = Lord Howe Island.PNG

| range_map_caption = Location of Lord Howe Island

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Monterissa gowerensis, also known as the Lord Howe microturban, is a species of small cave snails with an operculum, gastropod mollusks in the family Hydrocenidae.{{cite journal |last1=Iredale |first1=Tom | date=1944|title= The land Mollusca of Lord Howe Island |url= |journal= Australian Zoologist |volume=10 |issue=3 |pages=299–334 |doi= |access-date= }}

Description

The globosely turbinate shell of adult snails is 2.1–2.4 mm in height, with a diameter of 1.7–2 mm, with deeply impressed sutures. It is smooth, glossy and pale golden-brown in colour. The umbilicus is closed. The ovately lunate aperture has an operculum.

Distribution and habitat

This terrestrial and freshwater species occurs on Australia's Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea, where it is rare and found mainly on the slopes of Mount Gower and Mount Lidgbird in leaf litter and cliff crevices.{{cite book |last1=Hyman |first1=Isabel |last2=Köhler |first2=Frank | author-link= |date=2020 |title= A Field Guide to the Land Snails of Lord Howe Island |url= |location=Sydney |publisher= Australian Museum |page= |isbn=978-0-9750476-8-2}}

References

Category:Hydrocenidae

Category:Gastropods of Lord Howe Island

Category:Vulnerable fauna of Australia

Category:Gastropods described in 1944

Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot

Category:Taxa named by Tom Iredale