Diloma aridum is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Trochidae.

Description

The height of the shell attains 19 mm, its diameter 17 mm.

Diloma aridum

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to New Zealand and occurs on sheltered mid-tidal rocks.

Diloma aridum

References

Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 Spencer, H.G.; Marshall, B.A.; Maxwell, P.A.; Grant-Mackie, J.A.; Stilwell, J.D.; Willan, R.C.; Campbell, H.J.; Crampton, J.S.; Henderson, R.A.; Bradshaw, M.A.; Waterhouse, J.B.; Pojeta, J. Jr (2009). Phylum Mollusca: chitons, clams, tusk shells, snails, squids, and kin, in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 161–254

Diloma aridum

External links

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Gastropods of New Zealand

Gastropods described in 1927

Taxa named by Harold John Finlay