Parviturbo germanus

Parviturbo germanus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Skeneidae
Genus: Parviturbo
Species: P. germanus
Binomial name
Parviturbo germanus
Pilsbry & Olsson, 1945

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

Description

The height of the subdiscoidal shell attains 0.75 mm, its diameter 1.3 mm

Distribution

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean, off Colombia and Ecuador.

References

  1. Pilsbry & Olsson (1945), Vitrinellidae and Similar Gastropods of the Panamic Province. Part I; Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol. 97 (1945), pp. 249-278


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