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Gibberula miliaria

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Gibberula miliaria
Shell of Gibberula miliaria
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Cystiscidae
Subfamily: Cystiscinae
Genus: Gibberula
Species:
G. miliaria
Binomial name
Gibberula miliaria
Synonyms[1]
  • Conus siculus Delle Chiaje, 1828
  • Marginella majuscula Bucquoy, E.J., Ph. Dautzenberg & G.F. Dollfus, 1883
  • Marginella miliacea Lamarck, 1822
  • Marginella miliaria (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Marginella miliaria var. majuscula Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1883
  • Marginella miliaris [sic] (misspelling)
  • Marginella oryza Doublier, 1853
  • Marginella zonata Swainson, W.A., 1840 (nomen dubium)
  • Persicula miliaria (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Voluta miliaria Linnaeus, 1758 (original combination)
  • Volvaria biplicata Risso, 1826
  • Volvaria miliacea Lamarck, 1822 (dubious synonym)
  • Volvaria quadriplicata Risso, 1826
  • Volvaria septemplicata Risso, 1826
  • Volvaria sexplicata Risso, 1826

Gibberula miliaria is a species of very small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Cystiscidae.[1]

Description

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The shell size varies between 4.5 mm and 7.5 mm

Distribution

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This species occurs in European waters (off Spain and Portugal), in the Mediterraneran Sea (offApulia and Greece) and in the Atlantic Ocean off the Canary Islands and Mauritania.

References

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  1. ^ a b Gibberula miliaria (Linnaeus, 1758). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 15 January 2011.
  • Arnaud, P. M., 1978. Révision des taxa malacologiques méditerrannéens introduits par Antoine Risso. Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Nice "1977"5: 101-150
  • Wolff, W.J.; Duiven, P.; Esselink, P.; Gueve, A. (1993). Biomass of macrobenthic tidal flat fauna of the Banc d'Arguin, Mauritania. Hydrobiologia 258(1-3): 151-163
  • Gofas S. (1990). Le genre Gibberula (Marginellidae) en Méditerranée. Lavori, Società Italiana di Malacologia 23: 113-139 page(s): 125-127; note: lectotype designated
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