Chevallieria columen

Chevallieria columen
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Iravadiidae
Genus:	Chevallieria
Species:	C. columen
Binomial name
Chevallieria columen (Melvill, 1904)
Synonyms
Amphitalamus elspethaeMelvill, 1910 · Amphitalamus elspethaeMelvill, 1910 Rissoa (Scrobs) columenMelvill, 1904 superseded combination Rissoa (Scrobs) elspethaeMelvill, 1910 junior subjective synonym Rissoa columenMelvill, 1904 superseded combination Rissoa elspethaeMelvill, 1910 junior subjective synonym Rissoina columen(Melvill, 1904) superseded combination Rissoina elspethae(Melvill, 1910) superseded combination

Chevallieria columen is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc or micromollusk in the family Iravadiidae. ^[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 4 mm, its diameter 1.3 mm.

(Original description in Latin) The shell is cylindrical, milky-white, and delicate, by no means shining. It possesses six whorls; the two apical ones are flattened at the apex itself, almost immersed, while the others are impressed at the sutures and appear stepped. The body whorl is almost straight and cylindrical. The aperture is ovate; the peristome is continuous, thickened, white, and expanded. The columella is oblique. ^[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Gulf of Oman.

References

1. Chevallieria columen (Melvill, 1904) . 21 may 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species .
2. Melvill, J.C. (1904). "Descriptions of twenty-three species of Gastropoda from the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and Arabian sea, dredged by Mr. F. W. Townsend, of the Indo-European Telegraph Service, in 1903". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 6 (1): 53–54. Retrieved 21 May 2025. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

• Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp

External links

• Melvill, J.C. (1910). "Descriptions of twenty-nine species of marine Mollusca from the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and North Arabian Sea, mostly collected by Mr. F. W. Townsend, of the Indo-European Telegraph Service". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 8 (6): 8.
• Ponder, W.F. (1984). "A review of the genera of the Iravadiidae (Gastropoda: Rissoacea) with an assessment of the relationships of the family". Malacologia. 25 (1).