Charopinesta goweri

Charopinesta goweri, also known as the Mount Gower pinhead snail, is a species of land snail that is endemic to Australia's Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea.

Description

The depressedly turbinate to discoidal shell of the mature snail is 1.1 mm in height, with a diameter of 1.7 mm, and a low spire. It is golden amber in colour. The whorls are slightly rounded, with impressed sutures and fine, closely spaced radial ribs. It has a roundedly lunate aperture and moderately widely open umbilicus. The animal is white with grey markings.

Distribution and habitat

This rare snail has only been recorded from the summit of Mount Gower and the mid slopes of Mount Lidgbird, but is presumed to inhabit the mid to upper slopes of both of the southern mountains of the island. It lives on trees in rainforest.