Rissoina spirata, the spiral risso, is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc or micromollusc in the family Rissoinidae.[1]
| Rissoina spirata | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Rissoinidae |
| Genus: | Rissoina |
| Species: | R. spirata
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| Binomial name | |
| Rissoina spirata Sowerby G.B. I, 1820
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Zebina spirata (Sowerby I, 1825) | |
Description
editThe size of the shell varies between 7 mm and 15 mm.
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Distribution
editThis species occurs in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar and the Aldabra Atoll; in the Central Pacific; in the Mediterranean Sea.
References
edit- ^ a b Rissoina spirata Sowerby G.B. I, 1820. Gofas, S. (2009). Rissoina spirata Sowerby G.B. I, 1820. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=180980 on 9 August 2010 .
- Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises, III(fasc. 4). Société d'Editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales: Paris. 321-636, plates IV-VII pp.
- Taylor, J.D. (1973). Provisional list of the mollusca of Aldabra Atoll.
- Streftaris, N.; Zenetos, A.; Papathanassiou, E. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Annu. Rev. 43: 419-453