Parviturbo acuticostatus

Parviturbo acuticostatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea (superfamily)
Family: Skeneidae
Genus: Parviturbo
Species: P. acuticostatus
Binomial name
Parviturbo acuticostatus
(Carpenter, 1864)

Parviturbo acuticostatus is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Skeneidae.[1][2]

Description

The size of the shell attains 3 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off California.

References

  1. WoRMS (2012). Parviturbo acuticostatus. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=575621 on 2012-09-01
  2. Keen M. (1971) Sea shells of tropical West America. Marine mollusks from Baja California to Perú, ed. 2. Stanford University Press. 1064 pp.

External links

External identifiers for Parviturbo acuticostatus
WoRMS 575621


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