Biology:Ecrobia maritima

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Short description: Species of gastropod

Ecrobia maritima
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Hydrobiidae
Genus: Ecrobia
Species:
E. maritima
Binomial name
Ecrobia maritima
(Milaschewitsch, 1916)[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Ventrosia maritima (Milaschewitsch, 1916)

Ecrobia maritima is a species of very small aquatic snail, an operculate gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae.[2]

Description

The size of an adult shell reaches 4 mm.

Distribution

Ecrobia maritima live in Pomorie Lake, a hyperhaline lagoon in eastern Bulgaria. Western Europe, Tunisia, the Peloponnesus and the Corinthian Gulf, all in the Ionian Sea, as well as — shockingly — the Black Sea coast in Romania, are habitats for E. ventrosa. Both the Black Sea and the Aegean Sea have been home to E. maritima.[3][4]

References

  • Kevrekidis T., Wilke T. & Mogias A. (2005). When DNA puts ecological works back on the right track: genetic assessment and distribution patterns of mudsnail populations in the Evros Delta lagoons. Archiv für Hydrobiologie vol. 162(1): 19-35

Wikidata ☰ Q5333932 entry