Gibberula miliaria

Gibberula miliaria is a species of very small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Cystiscidae.[1]

Gibberula miliaria
Shell of Gibberula miliaria (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Cystiscidae
Subfamily: Cystiscinae
Genus: Gibberula
Species:
G. miliaria
Binomial name
Gibberula miliaria
Synonyms[1]
  • 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
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