Rissoina spirata

Rissoina spirata , common name the spiral risso, is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoinidae.[1]

Rissoina spirata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:
Rissooidea
Family:
Rissoinidae
Subfamily:
Rissoininae
Genus:
Rissoina
Species:
R. spirata
Binomial name
Rissoina spirata
Sowerby G.B. I, 1820
Synonyms[1]

Zebina spirata (Sowerby I, 1825)

Description

The size of the shell varies between 7 mm and 15 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar and the Aldabra Atoll; in the Central Pacific; in the Mediterranean Sea.

References
  1. Rissoina spirata Sowerby G.B. I, 1820. Gofas, S. (2009). Rissoina spirata Sowerby G.B. I, 1820. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=180980 on 9 August 2010 .
  • Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises, III(fasc. 4). Société d'Editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales: Paris. 321-636, plates IV-VII pp.
  • Taylor, J.D. (1973). Provisional list of the mollusca of Aldabra Atoll.
  • Streftaris, N.; Zenetos, A.; Papathanassiou, E. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Annu. Rev. 43: 419-453


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