Crosseola bellula
Appearance
Crosseola bellula | |
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Shell of Crosseola bellula (syntype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
Order: | Trochida |
Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
Family: | Conradiidae |
Genus: | Crosseola |
Species: | C. bellula
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Binomial name | |
Crosseola bellula (A. Adams, 1865)
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Crosseola bellula is a species of small sea snail or micromollusc, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Conradiidae.[1]
Description
[edit]The height of the shell attains 2 mm. The white shell has a depressed turbinate shape. The whorls contain spiral lirae and lack varices. The interstices are neatly cancellated. The simple outer lip is thin and has an acute margin.[2]
Distribution
[edit]This marine species occurs off the Philippines and Japan.
References
[edit]- ^ MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Crosseola bellula (A. Adams, 1865). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=997989 on 2020-01-27
- ^ "The Annals and Magazine of Natural History". BiodiversityLibrary.org. 3rd ser. v. 15 (1865). 1 January 1865. Retrieved 19 April 2017.
Sources
[edit]- Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. (1999) Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-Bearing Mollusca of Japan. Elle Scientific Publications, Yao, Japan, 749 pp
- Rubio F. & Rolán E. (2017). New species of Crosseolidae Hickman, 2013 (Gastropoda) from the Tropical Indo-Pacific. Novapex. 18(1-2): 17-34
- Rubio F. & Rolán E. (2019). New species of Conradiidae Golikov & Starobogatov, 1987 (= Crosseolidae Hickman, 2013) (Gastropoda: Trochoidea) from the Tropical Indo-Pacific II. The genus Crosseola and the description of Crossolida n. gen. Novapex. 20(3): 49–91.