''Stosicia aberrans'' is a
species of minute
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
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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 or
micromollusk
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in the
family Zebinidae.
Distribution
This species occurs in the
Caribbean Sea (Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Panama) the
Gulf of Mexico (Cuba, Jamaica) and the
Lesser Antilles,
Puerto Rico and off north-eastern Brazil.
Description
The maximum recorded
shell length is 6 mm.
[Welch J. J. (2010). "The "Island Rule" and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". '' PLoS ONE'' 5(1): e8776. .]
Habitat
Minimum recorded depth is 0 m.
Maximum recorded depth is 93 m.
References
* Sleurs W.J.M. (1996) ''A revision of the Recent species of the genus Stosicia (Gastropoda: Rissoidae).'' Mededelingen van de Koninklijke Academie voor Weteschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van België, Klasse der Wetenschappen 58(1): 117–158, 19 pls
Further reading
* Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. García. 2009. ''Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico'', Pp. 579–699 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas
External links
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aberrans
Gastropods described in 1850
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