Biology:Crisilla picta

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Short description: Species of gastropod

Crisilla picta
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Crisilla picta
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Rissoidae
Genus: Crisilla
Species:
C. picta
Binomial name
Crisilla picta
(Jeffreys, 1867)[1]
Synonyms[3]
  • Rissoa picta Jeffreys, 1867
  • Auriconoba watsoni Nordsieck, 1972[2]
  • Cingula picta (Jeffreys, 1867)

Crisilla picta is a species of minute sea snail with an operculum; this organism is a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.[4]

Distribution

  • Madeira

Original description

Crisilla picta was originally collected by Reverend Robert Boog Watson in Madeira and it was sent to British malacologist John Gwyn Jeffreys, who described it as a new species under name Rissoa picta in 1867.[1] Jeffreys's original text (the type description) reads as follows:

The height of the shell is 0.075 inches (1.9 mm).[1] The width of the shell is 0.05 inches (1.3 mm).[1]

References

This article incorporates public domain text from reference [1]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Jeffreys J. G. (1867). "Description of a new species of Rissoa from Madeira". Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3)19: 435.
  2. Nordsieck F. (1972). Die europäischen Meeresschnecken (Opisthobranchia mit Pyramidellidae; Rissoacea). Vom Eismeer bis Kapverden, Mittelmeer und Schwarzes Meer. Gustav Fischer, Stuttgart, XIII + 327 pp.
  3. Crisilla picta. CLEMAM, accessed 5 April 2010.
  4. Crisilla picta (Jeffreys, 1867). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 December 2018.

Wikidata ☰ Q5185928 entry