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.
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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 | |
These tiny gastropods have a shell which is colorless and is transparent when fresh.
Distribution
editThis genus is found in the Indo-Pacific.
Shell description
editShell 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
editSpecies 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][self-published source]
- Crithe gofasi Boyer, 2003[4]
- Crithe huna (Kay, 1979)
- Crithe marianoi Cossignani, 2001[7][self-published source]
- Crithe nanaoensis (Habe, 1951)
- Crithe nipponica (Habe, 1951)
- Crithe togatulus Boyer, 2018
References
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- ^ a b c 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. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
- ^ a b "Crithe". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2018-12-20.
- ^ Smith, E.A. (1901). "On South African marine shells, with descriptions of new species". Journal of Conchology. 10: 104–116.
- ^ a b Boyer, Frank (2003). "The Cystiscidae (Caenogastropoda) from upper reef formations of New Caledonia". Iberus. 21 (1): 241–272. 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)