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Crisilla aartseni

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Crisilla aartseni
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Rissoidae
Genus: Crisilla
Species:
C. aartseni
Binomial name
Crisilla aartseni
(Verduin, 1984)
Synonyms
  • Cingula aartseni Verduin, 1984
  • Setia aartseni (Verduin, 1984) (transferred to genus Crisilla)

Crisilla aartseni is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.[1]

Description

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Shell color ranges from creamy white to a dark brown, often with splotched patterning. Its average size is about 1.5 millimeters.

Distribution

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It is most commonly founds around the southern Spanish coast, near the Gibraltar strait and the Alboran Sea.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Gofas, S. (2015). Crisilla aartseni (Verduin, 1984). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=670452 on 2015-09-15
  2. ^ Worldwide Mollusk Species Database
  • Verduin A. (1984). On the taxonomy of some recent European marine species of the genus Cingula s.l.. Basteria 48: 37-87
  • Oliver J.D., Templado J. & Kersting D. 2012. Gasterópodos marinos de las islas Columbretes (Mediterráneo occidental). Iberus, 30(2): 49-87
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  • "Crisilla aartseni". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.