Crossea miranda

Crossea miranda
Drawing of a shell of Crossea miranda
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Vetigastropoda (unassigned)
Family: Crosseolidae
Genus: Crossea
Species: C. miranda
Binomial name
Crossea miranda
A. Adams, 1865 [1]
Synonyms

Crosseia miranda A. Adams, 1865

Crossea miranda is a species of small sea snail or micromollusc, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Crosseolidae.[2]

Description

The height of the white shell varies between 3 mm and 6 mm. It contains 3-4 whorls that increase rapidly in size. They are very convex and spirally striate. They contain thin, low, longitudinal, not synchronized varices; this makes it unusual. The aperture is produced below.[3][4]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off New Zealand and Japan.

References

External links

External identifiers for Crossea miranda
WoRMS 596650
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