Biology:Crithe
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Short description: Genus of gastropods
| Crithe | |
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| Crithe caledonica | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Cystiscidae |
| Subfamily: | Cystiscinae |
| Genus: | Crithe Gould, 1860[1] |
| Type species | |
| Crithe atomaria Gould, 1860[1]
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Crithe is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Cystiscidae. This genus is sometimes still placed within the Marginellidae.
These tiny gastropods have a shell which is colorless and is transparent when fresh.
Distribution
This genus is found in the Indo-Pacific.
Shell description
Shell minute to small, white, hyaline; spire usually immersed, rarely low; lip thickened, smooth, lacking denticulation; external varix absent; siphonal notch absent; posterior notch absent; columella multiplicate, with 6-8 plications plus parietal lirae, plications usually excavated inside aperture due to collabral parietal callus ridge.
Species
Species within the genus Crithe include:[2]
- Crithe algoensis (Smith, 1901)[3]
- Crithe atomaria Gould, 1860[1]
- Crithe caledonica Boyer, 2003[4]
- Crithe cassidiformis Boyer, 2018[5]
- Crithe cossinea Cossignani, 1997[6]
- Crithe gofasi Boyer, 2003[4]
- Crithe huna (Kay, 1979)
- Crithe marianoi Cossignani, 2001[7]
- Crithe nanaoensis (Habe, 1951)
- Crithe nipponica (Habe, 1951)
- Crithe togatulus Boyer, 2018
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gould, A.A. (1860). "Descriptions of new shells collected by the United States North Pacific Exploring Expedition". Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. 7: 323–336. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9249883#page/331/mode/1up. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Crithe". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=390875.
- ↑ Smith, E.A. (1901). "On South African marine shells, with descriptions of new species". Journal of Conchology 10: 104–116.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Boyer, Frank (2003). "The Cystiscidae (Caenogastropoda) from upper reef formations of New Caledonia". Iberus 21 (1): 241–272. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42359557#page/247/mode/1up. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
- ↑ Boyer, F. (2018). "Révision des gastéropodes marginelliformes dans le récifal supérieur des Maldives". Xenophora Taxonomy 21: 22–47.
- ↑ Cossignani, T. (1997). "Descrizione di tre nuove marginelle (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia, Marginellidae e Cystiscidae)". Malacologia Mostra Mondiale 24: 16–17.
- ↑ Cossignani, T. (2001). "Descrizione di dieci nuove marginelle (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia, Marginellidae e Cystiscidae) della provincia Indo-Pacifica". Malacologia Mostra Mondiale 35: 3–11.
- Coovert, Gary A. and Holly K. Coovert 1995. Revision of the Supraspecific Classification of Marginelliform Gastropods. The Nautilus 109(2 & 3):43-110. (latest family review)
Wikidata ☰ Q5186579 entry
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