Biology:Sinezona confusa

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Short description: Species of mollusc

Sinezona confusa
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Lepetellida
Family: Scissurellidae
Genus: Sinezona
Species:
S. confusa
Binomial name
Sinezona confusa
Rolán & Luque, 1994
Synonyms[1]
  • Schismope cingulata auct. non O. G. Costa, 1861
  • Schismope columbiana Bandel, 1998
  • Scissurella columbiana (Bandel, 1998)
  • Sinezona hawaiiensis Geiger, D.L. & J.H. McLean, 2010
  • Woodwardia cingulata auct. non O. G. Costa, 1861

Sinezona confusa is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Scissurellidae.[1]

Description

The shell reaches a height of 1.5 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea and in the Atlantic Ocean off Brazil .

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Sinezona confusa Rolán & Luque, 1994. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 August 2010.
  • Bandel, K. 1998. Scissurellidae als Modell für die Variationsbreite einer natürlichen Einheit der Schlitzbandschnecken (Mollusca, Archaeogastropoda). Mitteilungen aus dem Geologisch-paläontogischen Institut der Universität Hamburg 81: 1–120, 23 pls
  • Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. García. 2009. Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
  • Geiger D.L. & McLean J.H. (2010) New species and records of Scissurellidae and Anatomidae from the Americas (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda). Zootaxa 2356: 1–35.
  • Geiger D.L. (2012) Monograph of the little slit shells. Volume 1. Introduction, Scissurellidae. pp. 1–728. Volume 2. Anatomidae, Larocheidae, Depressizonidae, Sutilizonidae, Temnocinclidae. pp. 729–1291. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Monographs Number 7.

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