Biology:Lissotesta mammillata
| Lissotesta mammillata | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Family: | incertae sedis |
| Genus: | Lissotesta |
| Species: | L. mammillata
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| Binomial name | |
| Lissotesta mammillata (Thiele, 1912)
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Submargarita mammillata Thiele, 1912 (original combination) | |
Lissotesta mammillata is a tiny species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, unassigned in the superfamily Seguenzioidea.[1] It was first named and described by the German Zoologist Johannes Thiele.
Description
The shell of Lissotesta mammillata is exceptionally small, reaching a recorded maximum height of 1.6mm at two teleoconch whorls. L. mammillata closely resembles Lissotesta wareni, however L. mammillata is distinguished by its larger shell size relative to its whorl count and it also has more crowded spiral threads on the base of its shell. Moreover Thiele's initial description mentioned no spiral threads above the periphery, but subsequent evaluations by malacological R.K Dell confirmed that these faint spiral threads above the periphery of its shell were evident upon closer structural illustration.[2] ==Distribution== This marine species occurs off the Antarctic Peninsula.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lissotesta mammillata (Thiele, 1912). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 27 March 2013.
- ↑ "View of The Vetigastropoda (Mollusca) of Walters Shoal, with descriptions of two new genera and thirty new species" (in en-US). https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/view/2445/10835.
Wikidata ☰ Q6559248 entry
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