Crisilla aartseni is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.[1]
| Crisilla aartseni | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Rissoidae |
| Genus: | Crisilla |
| Species: | C. aartseni
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| Binomial name | |
| Crisilla aartseni (Verduin, 1984)
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Description
editShell color ranges from creamy white to a dark brown, often with splotched patterning. Its average size is about 1.5 millimeters.
Distribution
editIt is most commonly founds around the southern Spanish coast, near the Gibraltar strait and the Alboran Sea.[2]
References
edit- ^ Gofas, S. (2015). Crisilla aartseni (Verduin, 1984). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=670452 on 2015-09-15
- ^ Worldwide Mollusk Species Database
- Verduin A. (1984). On the taxonomy of some recent European marine species of the genus Cingula s.l.. Basteria 48: 37-87
- Oliver J.D., Templado J. & Kersting D. 2012. Gasterópodos marinos de las islas Columbretes (Mediterráneo occidental). Iberus, 30(2): 49-87
External links
edit- "Crisilla aartseni". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.