Crisilla aartseni
| Crisilla aartseni | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Rissoidae |
| Genus: | Crisilla |
| Species: | C. aartseni
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| Binomial name | |
| Crisilla aartseni (Verduin, 1984)
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Crisilla aartseni is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.[1]
Description
[edit]Shell color ranges from creamy white to a dark brown, often with splotched patterning. Its average size is about 1.5 millimeters.
Distribution
[edit]It is most commonly founds around the southern Spanish coast, near the Gibraltar strait and the Alboran Sea.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Gofas, S. (2015). Crisilla aartseni (Verduin, 1984). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=670452 on 2015-09-15
- ^ Worldwide Mollusk Species Database
- Verduin A. (1984). On the taxonomy of some recent European marine species of the genus Cingula s.l.. Basteria 48: 37-87
- Oliver J.D., Templado J. & Kersting D. 2012. Gasterópodos marinos de las islas Columbretes (Mediterráneo occidental). Iberus, 30(2): 49-87
External links
[edit]- "Crisilla aartseni". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.