Crossea miranda

Short description: Species of gastropod

Crossea miranda

Shell of Crossea miranda (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Mollusca
Class:  | Gastropoda
Subclass:  | Vetigastropoda
Order:  | Trochida
Superfamily:  | Trochoidea
Family:  | Conradiidae
Genus:  | Crossea
Species:  |

C. miranda

Binomial name
Crossea miranda

A. Adams, 1865 [1]

Synonyms

Crosseia miranda A. Adams, 1865

Crossea miranda is a species of small sea snail or micromollusc, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Conradiidae.[2]

## Contents

* 1 Description
* 2 Distribution
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## Description

The height of the white shell varies between 3 mm and 6 mm. It contains 3-4 whorls that increase rapidly in size. They are very convex and spirally striate. They contain thin, low, longitudinal, not synchronized varices; this makes it unusual. The aperture is produced below.[3][4]

## Distribution

This marine species occurs off New Zealand and Japan .

## References

1. ↑ A. Adams. Ann. Mag.,N. Hist., Apr., 1865,
2. ↑ Bouchet, P. (2012). Crossea miranda A. Adams, 1865. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=596650 on 2012-09-01
3. ↑ Tryon (1887), Manual of Conchology IX – Solariidae (by William B. Marshall), Ianthinidae, Trichotropidae, Scalariidae, Cerithiidae, Rissoidae, Littorinidae
4. ↑ "T. Sasaki (2008), Micromolluscs in Japan: taxonomic composition, habitats, and future topics; Zoosymposia 1 147:232". http://www.um.u-tokyo.ac.jp/hp/sasaki/p/042.pdf.

* Adams A. , 1865. On some new genera of mollusca from the Seas of Japan. The Annals and Magazine of natural History 15: 322–324, sér. 3° série

## External links

* To World Register of Marine Species
* "Crossea miranda" (in en). Gastropods.com. http://www.gastropods.com/0/Shell_16330.shtml.

Wikidata ☰ Q5188545 entry

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