title: Scissurella ornata
text: # Scissurella ornata
  
  Scissurella ornata, common name the ornate slit shell, is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Scissurellidae, the little slit snails.
  
  ## Description
  
  The size of the shell varies between 1 mm and 2 mm.
  
  ## Distribution
  
  This marine species occurs off New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania, Australia.
  
  