Parviturbo weberi

Parviturbo weberi
Shell of Parviturbo weberi (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Skeneidae
Genus:	Parviturbo
Species:	P. weberi
Binomial name
Parviturbo weberi Pilsbry & McGinty, 1945

Parviturbo weberi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Skeneidae. ^[1]

Description

The size of the shell attains 1.7 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea and the Lesser Antilles; in the Atlantic Ocean off the Bahamas and Brazil at depths up to 60 m.

References

1. Parviturbo weberi Pilsbry & McGinty, 1945 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 21 April 2010.

• Rosenberg, G.; Moretzsohn, F.; García, E. F. (2009). Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, pp. 579–699 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
• Rubio F., Rolán E. & Fernández-Garcés R. (2015). Revision of the genera Parviturbo and Pseudorbis (Gastropoda, Skeneidae). Iberus. 33(2): 167-259.

External links

• Pilsbry H.A. & McGinty T.L. (1945). "Cyclostrematidae" and Vitrinellidae of Florida. I. Nautilus, 59(1): 1–13, pl. 1–2; II, Nautilus, 59(2): 52–60, pl. 6
• "Parviturbo weberi". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.