Assiminea savesi

Assiminea savesi is a species of minute, salt-tolerant snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod molluscs, or micromolluscs, in the family Assimineidae. ^[1]

Assiminea savesi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Assimineidae
Genus:	Assiminea
Species:	A. savesi
Binomial name
Assiminea savesi (Crosse, 1888)
Synonyms[1]
Hydrobia savesi Crosse, 1888 (original combination)

Description

The length of this species attains 1½ mm, its diameter 0.75 mm.

(Original description in Latin) The shell is imperforate, pupiform, thin, and corneous. The spire is oblong, with a somewhat blunt apex. The suture is impressed. It has four sligthly rounded whorls, which are encircled by a brown, nearly inconspicuous band. The body whorl nearly equals the height of the spire and is obscurely encircled by two brown zones. The aperture is ovate-pyriform andof the same color as the shell. The external zones pass inconspicuously through the interior. The peristome (margin) is continuous, somewhat thickened, and corneous. ^[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in New Caledonia in brackish and fresh waters.