Assiminea lutea
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| Assiminea lutea | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Assimineidae |
| Genus: | Assiminea |
| Species: | A. lutea |
| Binomial name | |
| Assiminea lutea (A. Adams, 1861) | |
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Assiminea lutea is a species of small operculate snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Assimineidae.[1]
(Original description in Latin) The shell is cone-shaped. The spire is conical, elevated, and covered by a thin epidermis. The shell is pale yellow. It has 5½ whorls, which are scarcely convex. The body whorl is rounded. The umbilical region is impressed. The aperture is rounded-ovate. The outer lip is broad, spreading, and thickened above.[2]
Distribution
This species occurs in brackish waters of the estuary of the Pei-ho, Yellow Sea: also in the Russian Federation, Korea and Japan.
