Cystiscus vitiensis

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Cystiscus vitiensis
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Shell of Cystiscus vitiensis (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Cystiscidae
Subfamily: Cystiscinae
Genus: Cystiscus
Species:
C. vitiensis
Binomial name
Cystiscus vitiensis
Wakefield & McCleery, 2006 [1]

Cystiscus vitiensis is a species of very small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Cystiscidae. [2]

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Description

The length of the shell attains 1.76 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Fiji Islands .

References

  1. ↑ Wakefield, A.; McCleery, T. (2006). "Descriptions of new species of Pacific Cystiscus Stimpson, 1865 (Gastropoda : Cystiscidae). Part 1: species with banded mantle patterns". Novapex (Hors-série 4). 7: 1–31.
  2. ↑ Cystiscus vitiensis Wakefield & McCleery, 2006 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 24 April 2010.


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