Parviturbo acuticostatus

Parviturbo acuticostatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Skeneidae
Genus: Parviturbo
Species: P. acuticostatus
Binomial name
Parviturbo acuticostatus
(Carpenter, 1864)

Parviturbo acuticostatus is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Skeneidae.[1][2]

Description

The maximum diameter of the shell can reach 3 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off California.

References

  1. WoRMS (2012). Parviturbo acuticostatus. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=575621 on 2012-09-01
  2. Keen M. (1971) Sea shells of tropical West America. Marine mollusks from Baja California to Perú, ed. 2. Stanford University Press. 1064 pp.


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