Assiminea aurifera


Assiminea aurifera is a species of small operculate snail, a marine gastropod mollusc or micromollusc in the family Assimineidae.

Description

The length of the shell attains 3.75 mm, its diameter 2.75 mm.
The shell is turbinate, perforate, thin, semitransparent, and dark brownish horn-coloured. It is minutely and densely freckled with golden yellow.It has whorls, which are regularly increasing, shouldered above, and convex. These whorls are also very minutely spirally striate. The suture is well impressed. The umbilicus is moderately wide and deep. The columellar margin is very oblique and obtuse-angled and lightly outwardly reflexed; The outer lip is simple and acute. The aperture is irregularly roundly ovate.

Distribution

This species occurs in Kenya.