Ammonicera fischeriana

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Ammonicera fischeriana
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Shell of Ammonicera fischeriana (specimen at the Natural History Museum Rotterdam)
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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)

Contents

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.

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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.PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
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