Apataxia cerithiiformis

Species of gastropod

Apataxia cerithiiformis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:
Rissooidea
Family:
Rissoinidae
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

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

Description

Distribution

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

References

  1. ^ a b 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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  • Tryon, G. W. (1887). Manual of conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, ser. 1, vol. 9: Solariidae, Ianthinidae, Trichotropidae, Scalariidae, Cerithiidae, Rissoidae, Littorinidae. pp 1-488, pls 1-71. Philadelphia, published by the author.
  • Tomlin, J. R. le B. (1915). Description of a new Rissoina. Journal of Conchology. 14(11): 321-322
  • Pease, W. H. (1868). Description of sixty-five new species of marine Gastropodae, inhabiting Polynesia. American Journal of Conchology. 3(4): 271-297, pls 23-24.
  • Sleurs W.J.M. (1993) A revision of the Recent species of Rissoina (Moerchiella), R. (Apataxia), R. (Ailinzebina) and R. (Pachyrissoina) (Gastropoda: Rissoidae). Bull. K. Belg. Inst. Nat. Wet. 63: 71-135.
  • "Rissoina (Apataxia) cerithiiformis". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
Taxon identifiers
Apataxia cerithiiformis
Rissoina cerithiiformis


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