''Pyrgulina nana'' is a
species
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of
sea snail
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, a
marine
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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
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in the
family
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Pyramidellidae
Pyramidellidae, common name the pyram family, or pyramid shells, is a voluminous taxonomic family of mostly small and minute ectoparasitic sea snails, marine heterobranch gastropod molluscs. The great majority of species of pyrams are micromol ...
, the pyrams and their allies.
[Gofas, S. (2015). Pyrgulina nana Hornung & Mermod, 1924. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=236151 on 2015-04-03]
Distribution
This species occurs in the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea, off the following locations:
*
Güllük Bay
*
Massawa
Massawa ( ; ti, ምጽዋዕ, məṣṣəwaʿ; gez, ምጽዋ; ar, مصوع; it, Massaua; pt, Maçuá) is a port city in the Northern Red Sea region of Eritrea, located on the Red Sea at the northern end of the Gulf of Zula beside the Dahlak ...
*
Mersin Bay
It is also found in the
Aegean Sea
The Aegean Sea ; tr, Ege Denizi (Greek language, Greek: Αιγαίο Πέλαγος: "Egéo Pélagos", Turkish language, Turkish: "Ege Denizi" or "Adalar Denizi") is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea between Europe and Asia. It ...
and in the Red Sea off
Eritrea
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.
References
Hornung A. & Mermod G. (1924). ''Mollusques de la Mer Rouge recueillis par A. Issel faisant partie des collections du Musée Civique d'Histoire Naturelle de Gênes. Première partie, Pyramidellides''. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria, Genova, 51: 283-311 Öztürk, B.; van Aartsen, J.J. (2006). ''Indo-Pacific species in the Mediterranean. 5. Chrysallida micronana nom. nov. for Chrysallida nana (Hornung and Mermod, 1924) (Gastropoda: Pyramidellidae).'' Aquatic invasions. 1(4): 241-244
External links
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Pyramidellidae
Gastropods described in 1924
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