Moelleria costulata

Moelleria costulata
Moelleria costulata shell
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Phasianelloidea
Family: Colloniidae
Subfamily: Moelleriinae
Genus: Moelleria
Species: M. costulata
Binomial name
Moelleria costulata
(Møller, 1842)[1]
Synonyms
  • Adeorbis costulata (Møller, 1842) Verrill
  • Cyclostrema costulata (Möller, 1842)
  • Margarita (?) costulata Möller, 1842 (original combination)
  • Margarita minutissima Mighels, 1843
  • Moelleria glabra Verkrüzen, 1877
  • Molleria costulata (Møller, 1842)

Moelleria costulata, common name the ribbed moelleria, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Colloniidae.[2]

Description

The size of the shell varies between 0.5 mm and 2.6 mm. The shell is ribbed longitudinally.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in circum-Arctic waters, off Alaska, in European waters, the Northwest Atlantic Ocean and down south to Morocco.

References

  1. ↑ Möller, H. P. C. 1842. Index molluscorum Groenlandiae. Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift 4: 76-97.
  2. ↑ Moelleria costulata (Møller, 1842).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 19 June 2012.
  • Mighels, J. W. 1843. Descriptions of six species of shells regarded as new. Boston Journal of Natural History 4: 345-350, pl. 16.
  • Verkrüzen, T. A. 1877. Liste der von T. A. Verkrüzen in 1876 in Neufundland und Nova Scotia gesammelten Mollusken. Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft 9: 52-57.
  • Turgeon, D.D., et al. 1998. Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates of the United States and Canada. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26 page(s): 60
  • Brunel, P., L. Bosse, & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p.
  • Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
  • Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324


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