Zeidora tasmanica
Zeidora tasmanica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.
Description
The length of the shell attains 5 mm, its height 0.8 mm.The white, delicate shell is depressedly conical and cap-shaped. It is elliptic-oblong in basal outline, rounded behind, truncately rounded and deeply cleft in front, with a narrow sunken fissural band extending to the apex. The back is depressedly convex. The apex is minute and short, hooked and somewhat adpressed, almost reaching the posterior margin.
The ornament consists of concentric threadlets and obliquely radial threadlets, which produce an elegant cancellation of rhombic spaces. In the apical region the ornament is extremely fine, but beyond it the cancellation is visible to the unaided eye. The margin of the aperture is closely crenulate-serrate. The fissural band is margined on each side by an elevated rounded keel, which is crenately sculptured. The scars on the fissural band are arched, sharp and close, but not contiguous.
The inside is glossy and smooth. The septum is narrowly crescentic, much depressed posteriorly becoming shallower on the anterior border, which almost reaches the base of the shell.