A Field Guide to the Snails of Lord Howe Island

126 Family Punctidae (Pinhead or Dot Snails) Genus Goweriana Shea & Griffiths, 2010 Description. As for species (see below). Remarks. This genus is easily distinguished by somewhat reduced shell with rapidly increasing whorls. Goweriana berniceae Shea & Griffiths, 2010 Bernice’s Pinhead Snail Shell. Size: Adult shells unavailable; D = 3.5 mm (Stanisic et al. , 2010). Colour: Transparent golden brown. Shape: Globose with a flat spire; sutures impressed; whorls rounded, last whorl inflated, rapidly expanding. Sculpture: Protoconch with spiral lirae; teleoconch with moderately spaced, bladed radial ribs, with microsculpture of spirals and radials. Aperture: Roundly lunate. Umbilicus: Closed. Animal. Not known. Key distinguishing features. Regular, moderately spaced bladed ribs; rapidly expanding whorls; globose shape. Malabar Kim’s Lookout Transit Hill Intermediate Hill Mt Lidgbird Mt Gower ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ● G. berniciae