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Rissoina costata

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Rissoina costata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Rissoinidae
Genus: Rissoina
Species:
R. costata
Binomial name
Rissoina costata
A. Adams, 1851
Synonyms[1]

Rissoina turricula Pease, 1861

Rissoina costata is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoinidae.[1]

Description

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Distribution

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This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Aldabra.

References

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  1. ^ a b Rissoina costata Pease. WoRMS (2009). Rissoina costata A. Adams, 1851 . Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=593614 on 12 January 2012 .
  • Sleurs W.J.M. (1989) A zoogeographical analysis of the rissoinine fauna of the eastern Pacific with special reference to a comparison with the Caribbean fauna and with a checklist of the eastern Pacific Rissoininae Stimpson, 1865 (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Annales de la Société Royale Zoologique de Belgique 119(2): 155-164.
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