Scissurella clathrata

Scissurella clathrata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Scissurelloidea
Family: Scissurellidae
Genus: Scissurella
Species: S. clathrata
Binomial name
Scissurella clathrata
Strebel, 1908
Synonyms[1]
  • Anatoma clathrata (Strebel, 1908)
  • Schizotrochus clathrata (Strebel, 1908)
  • Scissurella eucharista Melvill & Standen, 1912
  • Scissurella malvinarum Zelaya & Geiger, 2007

Scissurella clathrata is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Scissurellidae, the little slit snails.[1][2][3][4]

Description

The shell grows to a height of 1.7 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Argentina, the Falkland Islands, Tierra del Fuego, Chile

References

  1. 1 2 Bouchet, P. (2012). Scissurella clathrata. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=493046 on 2013-02-16
  2. Zelaya D.G. & Geiger D.L. (2007). Species of Scissurellidae and Anatomidae from Sub-Antarctic and Antarctic waters (Gastropopda: Vetigastropoda). Malacologia 49(2):393-443.
  3. Zelaya D.G. & Geiger D.L. (2008) Scissurella clathrata in the San Jorge Gulf (Argentina) and the identity of the enigmatic S. dalli Bartsch, 1903 (Gastropoda: Scissurellidae). Zoosymposia 1: 265-269.
  4. 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. (30 October 2012)

External links

External identifiers for Scissurella clathrata
Encyclopedia of Life 4793723
WoRMS 493046


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