Incisura rosea
Incisura rosea | |
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Drawing of a shell of Incisura rosea | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Vetigastropoda |
Superfamily: | Scissurelloidea |
Family: | Scissurellidae |
Genus: | Incisura |
Species: | I. rosea |
Binomial name | |
Incisura rosea (Hedley, 1904) | |
Synonyms | |
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Incisura rosea, common name the rosy slit shell, is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Scissurellidae. [1]
Description
The shell grows to a height of 1.2 mm.
Distribution
This marine species occurs off New Zealand.
References
- ↑ WoRMS (2010). Incisura rosea. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=492790 on 2012-07-18
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
- Geiger D.L. (2012) Monograph of the little slit shells. Volume 1. Introduction, Scissurellidae. pp. 1-728. Volume 2. Anatomidae, Larocheidae, Depressizonidae, Sutilizonidae, Temnocinclidae. pp. 729-1291. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Monographs Number 7
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