Ammonicera fischeriana

Ammonicera fischeriana
Shell of Ammonicera fischeriana (specimen at the Natural History Museum Rotterdam)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Family:	Omalogyridae
Genus:	Ammonicera
Species:	A. fischeriana
Binomial name
Ammonicera fischeriana (Monterosato, 1869)
Synonyms
Homalogyra fischerianaMonterosato, 1869 · (original combination)

Ammonicera fischeriana is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Omalogyridae. ^[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 0.8 mm.

(Original description in French) A very small, discoidal, planorbiform shell, coiled in a single plane, symmetrical, and transparent. It is decorated with fine growth striations visible only under magnification.

The shell exhibits a whitish coloration accented by three equidistant reddish-brown bands: one near the top, one in the middle, and one at the bottom. It has four regularly coiled whorls, with the body whorl rounded. The aperture is circular, with a simple peristome that is neither reflected nor thickened. ^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Mediterranean Sea off the Balearic Islands, France, Italy, Greece, Tunisia, Turkey.

References

1. Ammonicera fischeriana (Monterosato, 1869) . 19 January 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species .
2. Monterosato, T.A. di (1869). "Description d'espèces nouvelles de la Méditerranée". Journal de Conchyliologie. 7 (3): 274–275. Retrieved 19 January 2025. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

External links

• Oliver, J. D.; Rolán, E. (2015). "The genus Ammonicera (Heterobranchia, Omalogyridae) in the Eastern Atlantic. 1: the species of the Iberian Peninsula". Iberus. 33 (1): 60–74.