Apataxia cerithiiformis

Apataxia cerithiiformis is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoinidae.[1]

Apataxia cerithiiformis
Scientific classification
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Genus:
Apataxia
Species:
A. cerithiiformis
Binomial name
Apataxia cerithiiformis
(Tryon, 1887)
Synonyms[1]
  • Apataxia erecta Laseron, 1956
  • Rissoina (Apataxia) cerithiiformis Tryon, 1887
  • Rissoina (Apataxia) erecta Laseron, C.F., 1956
  • Rissoina costulata Pease, 1867 (Invalid: junior homonym of Rissoina costulata Dunker, 1859; Rissoina harperi is a replacement name)
  • Rissoina harperi Dautzenberg & Bouge, 1933
  • Rissoina miltozona Tomlin, 1915

Description

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Western and Central Pacific.

References

  1. MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Apataxia cerithiiformis (Tryon, 1887). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=871015 on 2023-10-24
  • Dautzenberg P. & Bouge J.L. (1933). Les mollusques testacés marins des Etablissements Français de l'Océanie. Journal de conchyliologie. 77: 41-108; 145-326; 351-469.
  • Laseron, C. F. (1956). The families Rissoinidae and Rissoidae (Mollusca) from the Solanderian and Dampierian zoogeographical provinces. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 7 (3): 384-484.

page(s): 401-402

  • Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp.
  • Bosch D.T., Dance S.P., Moolenbeek R.G. & Oliver P.G. (1995) Seashells of eastern Arabia. Dubai: Motivate Publishing. 296 pp.
  • Faber, M. & K. Kaiser. (2015). The Rissoinidae of Île Clipperton in the tropical eastern Pacific (Mollusca. Gastropoda). Miscellanea Malacologica. 7, 19-23


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