Melloconcha miranda, also known as the Miranda's glass-snail, is a species of land snail that is endemic to Australia's Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea.[2]

Melloconcha miranda
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Euconulidae
Subfamily: Microcystinae
Tribe: Liardetiini
Genus: Melloconcha
Species:
M. miranda
Binomial name
Melloconcha miranda
(Iredale, 1944)[1]
Location of Lord Howe Island
Synonyms
  • Annacharis miranda Iredale, 1944

Taxonomy

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The species is sometimes placed in the monotypic genus Annacharis because of its distinctive channelled sutures.[2]

Description

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The discoidal shell of the mature snail is 3.7 mm in height, with a diameter of 6.7 mm, and a low spire. It is smooth, glossy and pale golden in colour The whorls are rounded, with deeply channelled sutures and finely incised spiral grooves. It has an ovately lunate aperture and closed umbilicus. The animal is unknown.[2]

Distribution and habitat

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The snail is only known from a single empty shell collected from the summit of Mount Gower in 1913. It is evidently very rare and may be extinct. [2]

References

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  1. ^ Iredale, Tom (1944). "The land Mollusca of Lord Howe Island". Australian Zoologist. 10 (3): 299–334.
  2. ^ a b c d Hyman, Isabel; Köhler, Frank (2020). A Field Guide to the Land Snails of Lord Howe Island. Sydney: Australian Museum. ISBN 978-0-9750476-8-2.