Gibberula miliaria

Gibberula miliaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Cystiscidae
Subfamily: Persiculinae
Genus: Gibberula
Species: G. miliaria
Binomial name
Gibberula miliaria
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms[1]
  • Persicula miliaria (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Marginella miliacea Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de, 1822
  • Marginella zonata Swainson, W.A., 1840 (nomen dubium)
  • Marginella oryza Doublier, 1853
  • Marginella majuscula Bucquoy, E.J., Ph. Dautzenberg & G.F. Dollfus, 1883

Gibberula miliaria is a species of very small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Cystiscidae.[1]

Description

The shell size varies between 4.5 mm and 7.5 mm

Distribution

This species is distributed in European waters (along Spain and Portugal), in the Mediterraneran Sea (along Apulia and Greece) and in the Atlantic Ocean along the Canary Islands and Mauritania.

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