Moelleria costulata

Moelleria costulata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Phasianelloidea
Family: Colloniidae
Subfamily: Moelleriinae
Genus: Moelleria
Species: M. costulata
Binomial name
Moelleria costulata
(Møller, 1842) [1]
Synonyms
  • Adeorbis costulata (Møller, 1842) Verrill
  • Cyclostrema costulata (Möller, 1842)
  • Margarita (?) costulata Möller, 1842 (original combination)
  • Margarita minutissima Mighels, 1843
  • Moelleria glabra Verkrüzen, 1877
  • Molleria costulata (Møller, 1842)

Moelleria costulata, common name the ribbed moelleria, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Colloniidae.[2]

Description

The size of the shell varies between 0.5 mm and 2.6 mm. The shell is ribbed longitudinally.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in circum-Arctic waters, off Alaska, in European waters, the Northwest Atlantic Ocean and down south to Morocco.

References

  1. Möller, H. P. C. 1842. Index molluscorum Groenlandiae. Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift 4: 76-97.
  2. Moelleria costulata (Møller, 1842).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 19 June 2012.

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