''Parviturbo tuberculosus'' is a
species of minute
sea snail
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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 in the
family Skeneidae
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[Bouchet, P. (2013). Parviturbo tuberculosus (d'Orbigny, 1842). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=723686 on 2013-11-06]
Description
The size of the shell attains 2.5 mm.
Distribution
This marine species occurs in the Caribbean Sea, off
Jamaica,
Venezuela and the
Virgin Islands at a depth of 6 m.
References
* d'Orbigny, A. 1842. ''Mollusques. Histoire Physique, Politique et Naturelle de l'île de Cuba 2: 1-112, pls. 10-21''?. Arthus Bertrand: Paris.
* Weisbord, N. E. 1962. ''Late Cenozoic gastropods from northern Venezuela''. Bulletins of American Paleontology 42(193): 672 pp., 48 pls.
External links
Orbigny A. d' (1842-1853). Mollusques. Vol 2: 1-380 [pp. 1-112, 1842; pp. 113-128, 1844; pp. 129-224, 1847; pp. 225-380, 1853]. In: Sagra, R. de la (ed.). Histoire physique, politique et naturelle de l'Ile de Cuba. Arthus Bertrand, Paris (mentioned as binomen Delphinula tuberculosa under subgenus Delphinula of genus Trochus)World Register of Marine Species
tuberculosus
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Gastropods described in 1842
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