Scissurella mirifica is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Scissurellidae, the little slit snails.[1][2]
| Scissurella mirifica | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Lepetellida |
| Superfamily: | Scissurelloidea |
| Family: | Scissurellidae |
| Genus: | Scissurella |
| Species: | S. mirifica
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| Binomial name | |
| Scissurella mirifica (A. Adams, 1862)
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Description
editThe size of the shell varies between 1.2 mm and 2.5 mm. The depressed shell has an oval shape. The flattened spire has a very wide and open umbilicus. The entire surface of the 2½ whorls is regularly and delicately finely clathrate. The aperture is very oblique. The outer lip recedes inwards.[3]
Distribution
editThis marine species occurs off the Philippines, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Fiji and the Society Islands; off Queensland, Australia.
References
edit- ^ a b Bouchet, P. (2013). Scissurella mirifica (A. Adams, 1862). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=493075 on 2013-02-16
- ^ 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. (30 October 2012)
- ^ Adams, Arthur (1862), On some new species of Scissurellidae from the seas of China and Japan; Annals and Magazine of Natural History vol. 10 (described in Latin as Anatomus mirificus)
- Jansen, P., 1999. The Australian Scissurellidae. Conchiglia, 31(291):47-55.
- Geiger D.L. & Jansen P. (2004). New species of Australian Scissurellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) with remarks on Australian and Indo-Malayan species. Zootaxa 714:1-72
External links
edit- Encyclopedia of Life
- World Register of Marine Species
- "Scissurella mirifica". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.