Rissoina costata

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

Rissoina costata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:
Rissooidea
Family:
Rissoinidae
Genus:
Rissoina
Species:
R. costata
Binomial name
Rissoina costata
A. Adams, 1851
Synonyms[1]

Rissoina turricula Pease, 1861

Description

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Aldabra.

References
  1. Rissoina costata Pease. WoRMS (2009). Rissoina costata A. Adams, 1851 . Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=593614 on 12 January 2012 .
  • Sleurs W.J.M. (1989) A zoogeographical analysis of the rissoinine fauna of the eastern Pacific with special reference to a comparison with the Caribbean fauna and with a checklist of the eastern Pacific Rissoininae Stimpson, 1865 (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Annales de la Société Royale Zoologique de Belgique 119(2): 155-164.


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