''Granulina marginata'' is a
species of very small
sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...
, a marine
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk or
micromollusk
A micromollusk is a shelled mollusk which is extremely small, even at full adult size. The word is usually, but not exclusively, applied to marine mollusks, although in addition, numerous species of land snails and freshwater mollusks also ...
in the
family Granulinidae
Granulinidae are a family of small to medium-large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Neogastropoda.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Granulinidae G. A. Coovert & H. K. Coovert, 1995. Accessed through: World Register of Mari ...
.
Description
The length of the shell attains 1.9 mm.
Distribution
This species occurs in the Mediterranean Sea off
Sicily.
References
* Boyer F., Renda W. & Öztürk B. (2020). The genus Granulina (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Neogastropoda) from the Turkish coasts with taxonomical notes on some Mediterranean species. Ege Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 37(1): 65–83.
External links
Bivona-Bernardi Ant. (1832). Caratteri di alcune nuove specie di conchiglie. Effemeride Scientifiche e Letterarie per la Sicilia. 2: 16-24, pls 2-3Scacchi A. (1833). Osservazioni Zoologiche. Napoli, Tipi della Società Tipografica. 1: 1-12allary, P. (1900). Coquilles marines du littoral du département d'Oran. Journal de Conchyliologie. 48(3): 211-422Gofas S. (1992) Le genre Granulina (Marginellidae) en Méditerranée et dans l'Atlantique oriental. Bollettino Malacologico 28(1-4): 1-26
Granulinidae
Gastropods described in 1832
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