Parviturbo tuberculosus

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

Parviturbo tuberculosus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Skeneidae
Genus: Parviturbo
Species:
P. tuberculosus
Binomial name
Parviturbo tuberculosus
(d'Orbigny, 1842)
Synonyms[1]
  • Trochus (Delphinula) tuberculosa d'Orbigny, 1842
  • Parviturbo venezuelensis Weisbord, 1962

Description

The size of the shell attains 2.5 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Caribbean Sea, off Jamaica, Venezuela and the Virgin Islands at a depth of 6 m.

References

  1. Bouchet, P. (2013). Parviturbo tuberculosus (d'Orbigny, 1842). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=723686 on 2013-11-06
  • d'Orbigny, A. 1842. Mollusques. Histoire Physique, Politique et Naturelle de l'île de Cuba 2: 1-112, pls. 10-21?. Arthus Bertrand: Paris.
  • Weisbord, N. E. 1962. Late Cenozoic gastropods from northern Venezuela. Bulletins of American Paleontology 42(193): 672 pp., 48 pls.


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