Chiliostigma
Appearance
Chiliostigma | |
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Shell of Chiliostigma tumida (holotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Superfamily: | Rissooidea |
Family: | Rissoinidae |
Genus: | Chiliostigma Melvill, 1918 |
Type species | |
Rissoina refugium Melvill, 1918
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Synonyms[1] | |
Rissoina (Chiliostigma) Melvill, 1918[2] |
Chiliostigma is a small genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks, in the family Rissoinidae.[1][3]
Species
[edit]- Chiliostigma refugium (Melvill, 1918)
- Chiliostigma tumida Faber & Moolenbeek, 2014[4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Chiliostigma Melvill, 1918. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=597975 on 2020-08-09
- ^ Melvill, J.C. (1918). Descriptions of thirty-four species of marine Mollusca from the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman and Arabian Sea, collected by Mr. F. W. Townsend. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. ser. 9, 1: 137-158, pls 4-5.
- ^ Ponder, W. F. (1985). A review of the genera of the Rissoidae (Mollusca: Mesogastropoda: Rissoacea). Records of the Australian Museum. Suppl. 4: 1-221.
- ^ Faber, M. J. & R. G. Moolenbeek. (2014). A new species of Chiliostigma (Gastropoda: Rissoinidae) from Guadeloupe and other Caribbean islands. Miscellanea Malacologica. 6: 65-68.