Rissoina bertholleti

Rissoina bertholleti
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Rissoinidae
Genus: Rissoina
Species: R. bertholleti
Binomial name
Rissoina bertholleti
Issel, 1869

Rissoina bertholleti is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoinidae.[1]

Description

The shell is elongated and thick. It has seven to eight convex whorls. There is a thick cord running over the abapical end of the body whorl. The color is a whitish with a blurry brown suprasutural band, fading out on the body whorl. The height of the shell is between 4 mm and 7 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs world wide: in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean off Madagascar

References

  1. Rissoina bertholleti Issel, 1869. Gofas, S. (2009). Rissoina bertholleti Issel, 1869. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141375 on 8 June 2013.

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