Crisilla aartseni

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

Crisilla aartseni
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:
Rissooidea
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)

Description

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

Distribution

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

References
  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
  • "Crisilla aartseni". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.


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