Parviturbo parvissima

Parviturbo parvissima is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Skeneidae.[1]

Parviturbo parvissima
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Skeneidae
Genus: Parviturbo
Species:
P. parvissima
Binomial name
Parviturbo parvissima
Engl, 2001

Description

The size of the shell attains 1 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Réunion and the Cocos-Keeling Islands, Indian Ocean, but is apparently a Pacific species.

References
  1. Virginia Orr Maes (1967), The Littoral Marine Mollusks of Cocos-Keeling Islands (Indian Ocean); Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol. 119 (1967), pp. 93–217
  • "Parviturbo parvissima". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.


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