Scissurella cyprina

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Scissurella cyprina
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Clade: Lepetellida
Superfamily: Scissurelloidea
Family: Scissurellidae
Genus: Scissurella
Species:
S. cyprina
Binomial name
Scissurella cyprina
Cotton & Godfrey, 1938

Scissurella cyprina, common name the Venus slit shell, is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Scissurellidae, the little slit snails. [1] [2] [3]

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Description

The shell grows to a height of 2 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off New South Wales, South Australia and Western Australia; off Tasmania.

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References

  1. Bouchet, P. (2013). Scissurella cyprina Cotton & Godfrey, 1938. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=493050 on 2013-02-16
  2. Geiger D.L. & Jansen P. (2004). New species of Australian Scissurellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) with remarks on Australian and Indo-Malayan species. Zootaxa 714:1-72.
  3. Geiger D.L. (2012) Monograph of the little slit shells. Volume 1. Introduction, Scissurellidae. pp. 1-728. Volume 2. Anatomidae, Larocheidae, Depressizonidae, Sutilizonidae, Temnocinclidae. pp. 729-1291. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Monographs Number 7. (30 October 2012)