Goweroconcha wenda

Goweroconcha wenda, also known as the pale-zigzag pinwheel snail, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the pinwheel snail family, that is endemic to Australia's Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea.^[2]

Goweroconcha wenda
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Charopidae
Subfamily:	Charopinae
Genus:	Goweroconcha
Species:	G. wenda
Binomial name
Goweroconcha wenda Iredale, 1944[1]
Location of Lord Howe Island

Description

The shell of the snail is 1.9–2.4 mm in height, with a diameter of 4.2–4.5 mm. The colour is pale golden-brown with faint cream flammulations (flame-like markings) on some individuals. The shape is discoidal with a flat to slightly sunken spire, rounded whorls, impressed sutures, and with prominent, sinuous, moderately widely-spaced radial ribs. The umbilicus is widely open. The aperture is roundly lunate, angulate at base. The animal is unknown.^[2]

Distribution and habitat

This very rare snail has been recorded on the island from Little Slope and the summit of Mount Gower.^[2]