A Field Guide to the Snails of Lord Howe Island

128 Family Punctidae (Pinhead or Dot Snails) Genus Paralaoma Iredale, 1913 Remarks. This genus includes 29 recognised species, primarily from New Zealand and Australia but also from South Africa and Malaysia, and one ( Paralaoma morti ) which has been introduced throughout Europe. It appears likely that there are several more undescribed Paralaoma species on Lord Howe Island. Malabar Kim’s Lookout Transit Hill Intermediate Hill Mt Lidgbird Mt Gower ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ● P. compar ● P. goweri ● P. innesi ● P. morti Paralaoma compar Iredale, 1944 Ribbed Pinhead Snail Shell. Size: H = 1.2-1.3 mm, D = 2.4-2.5 mm. Colour: Deep golden-brown. Shape: Depressedly turbinate with a low spire; sutures impressed; whorls rounded. Sculpture: Protoconch with very fine spiral lirae, teleoconch with distinct, moderately closely spaced radial ribs and microsculpture of spirals. Aperture: Roundly lunate. Umbilicus: Moderately widely open.