Assiminea cincta


Assiminea cincta is a species of small operculate snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Assimineidae.
This is a taxon inquirendum.

Description

The shell is globularly cone-shaped, rather thin, and covered by a horny epidermis. The color is pale tawny. The spire is short. It has 4½ convex whorls. The body whorl is encircled by two reddish-brown transverse bands. The aperture is ovate-rounded. The outer lip is broad, callous, and tinted reddish-brown.

Distribution

This species occurs in fresh waters in China of the estuary of the stream near the Great Wall; also in Japan.