Gibberula miliaria

Gibberula miliaria is a species of very small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Cystiscidae.

Gibberula miliaria
Shell of Gibberula miliaria
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Cystiscidae
Subfamily:	Cystiscinae
Genus:	Gibberula
Species:	G. miliaria
Binomial name
Gibberula miliaria (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
Conus siculus Delle Chiaje, 1828 Marginella majuscula Bucquoy, E.J., Ph. Dautzenberg & G.F. Dollfus, 1883 Marginella miliacea Lamarck, 1822 Marginella miliaria (Linnaeus, 1758) Marginella miliaria var. majuscula Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1883 Marginella miliaris [sic] (misspelling) Marginella oryza Doublier, 1853 Marginella zonata Swainson, W.A., 1840 (nomen dubium) Persicula miliaria (Linnaeus, 1758) Voluta miliaria Linnaeus, 1758 (original combination) Volvaria biplicata Risso, 1826 Volvaria miliacea Lamarck, 1822 (dubious synonym) Volvaria quadriplicata Risso, 1826 Volvaria septemplicata Risso, 1826 Volvaria sexplicata Risso, 1826

Description

The shell size varies between 4.5 mm and 7.5 mm

Distribution

This species occurs in European waters (off Spain and Portugal), in the Mediterraneran Sea (offApulia and Greece) and in the Atlantic Ocean off the Canary Islands and Mauritania.

References

• Arnaud, P. M., 1978. Révision des taxa malacologiques méditerrannéens introduits par Antoine Risso. Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Nice "1977"5: 101-150
• Wolff, W.J.; Duiven, P.; Esselink, P.; Gueve, A. (1993). Biomass of macrobenthic tidal flat fauna of the Banc d'Arguin, Mauritania. Hydrobiologia 258(1-3): 151-163
• Gofas S. (1990). Le genre Gibberula (Marginellidae) en Méditerranée. Lavori, Società Italiana di Malacologia 23: 113-139 page(s): 125-127; note: lectotype designated

External links

• "Gibberula miliaria". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2011.
• Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae.
• Delle Chiaje S. (1823–1831). Memorie sulla storia e notomia degli animali senza vertebre del regno di Napoli. Napoli: Fratelli Fernandes (vol. 1), and Società Tipografica (vol. 2-4). Vol. 1, pp. i-xii, 1–84 [1823], pp. 1–184 [1824]; vol. 2, pp. [1-4] + 185–224 [1825], pp. 225–444 [1826]; vol. 3, pp. i-xx, pp. 1–232 [1828]; vol. 4, pp. i-vii [1831], 1–116 [1830], pp. 117–214 [1831]; pl. 1–4; pl. 1–69
• Risso, A. (1826–1827). Histoire naturelle des principales productions de l'Europe Méridionale et particulièrement de celles des environs de Nice et des Alpes Maritimes. Paris, Levrault:. . 3(XVI): 1-480, 14 pls
• Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1822). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome septième. Paris: published by the Author, 711 pp.
• Bucquoy E., Dautzenberg P. & Dollfus G. (1882–1886). Les mollusques marins du Roussillon. Tome Ier. Gastropodes. Paris: Baillière & fils. 570 pp., 66 pls
• Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213