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Genus of land snails From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Goweriana is a monotypic genus of pinhead or dot snails that is endemic to Australia's Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea.[1]
Goweriana | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Superorder: | Eupulmonata |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Punctidae |
Genus: | Goweriana Shea & Griffiths, 2010 |
Location of Lord Howe Island |
The shells of this very rare species are fragile and broken easily, making it difficult ti find entire adult shells to measure. The globose shell of a subadult had a diameter of 3.5 mm, with a flat spire, and was transparent golden-brown in colour. The sutures are impressed and the whorls rounded, with moderately spaced, bladed radial ribs. The aperture is roundly lunate with a closed umbilicus. The animal is unknown.[1]
The main area of occurrence of the snail is on the upper slopes of Mount Gower, living in rain forest plant litter.[1]
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