Larochea secunda is an extremely minute species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc or micromollusc in the family Larocheidae.
| Larochea secunda | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Lepetellida |
| Family: | Larocheidae |
| Genus: | Larochea |
| Species: | L. secunda
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| Binomial name | |
| Larochea secunda Powell, 1937
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Description
editThe thin, minute, white and globose shell reaches a height of 0.9 mm (0.035 in).
Distribution
editThis marine species occurs off New Zealand.
References
edit- A.W.B. Powell, New species of marine mollusca from New Zealand, Discovery Report, National Institute of Oceanography of Great Britain, v. 15, 1937, p. 207-208
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
- Marshall, B. A., 1993. The systematic position of Larochea Finlay, 1927, and introduction of a new genus and two new species (Gastropoda: Scissurellidae). J. Moll. Studies, 59(3):285-294.
- Geiger D.L. (2012) Monograph of the little slit shells. Volume 1. Introduction, Scissurellidae. pp. 1-728. Volume 2. Anatomidae, Larocheidae, Depressizonidae, Sutilizonidae, Temnocinclidae. pp. 729–1291. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Monographs Number 7