Gibberula miliaria

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Gibberula miliaria
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Shell of Gibberula miliaria
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Cystiscidae
Subfamily: Cystiscinae
Genus: Gibberula
Species:
G. miliaria
Binomial name
Gibberula miliaria
Synonyms [1]
  • Conus siculusDelle Chiaje, 1828
  • Marginella majusculaBucquoy, E.J., Ph. Dautzenberg & G.F. Dollfus, 1883
  • Marginella miliacea Lamarck, 1822
  • Marginella miliaria(Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Marginella miliaria var. majusculaBucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1883
  • Marginella miliaris [sic] (misspelling)
  • Marginella oryzaDoublier, 1853
  • Marginella zonataSwainson, W.A., 1840 (nomen dubium)
  • Persicula miliaria(Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Voluta miliariaLinnaeus, 1758 (original combination)
  • Volvaria biplicataRisso, 1826
  • Volvaria miliaceaLamarck, 1822 (dubious synonym)
  • Volvaria quadriplicataRisso, 1826
  • Volvaria septemplicataRisso, 1826
  • Volvaria sexplicataRisso, 1826

Gibberula miliaria is a species of very small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Cystiscidae. [1]

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Description

The shell size varies between 4.5 mm and 7.5 mm

Distribution

This species occurs in European waters (off Spain and Portugal), in the Mediterraneran Sea (offApulia and Greece) and in the Atlantic Ocean off the Canary Islands and Mauritania.

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