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Crossea
Drawing of a shell of Crossea biconica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Conradiidae
Genus: Crossea
A. Adams, 1865
Type species
Crossea miranda A. Adams, 1865
Synonyms[1]
  • Crosseia P. Fischer, 1885 (Invalid: unjustified emendation of Crossea)
  • Crosseola Iredale, 1924

Crossea is a genus of very small sea snails or micromolluscs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Crosseolidae.[1]

Distribution

Species in this marine genus occur off the Gulf of Oman, Japan, New Zealand, South Africa; off Australia (New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria).

Species

Species within the genus Crossea include:[1]

The following species were brought into synonymy:[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Bouchet, P. (2012). Crossea A. Adams, 1865. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=582313 on 2012-09-01
  • A. Adams, 1865, The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 3, 15: 333
  • Iredale, 1924 Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 49(3): 183, 251
  • Cotton, B. C. (1959). South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Adelaide. : W.L. Hawes. 449 pp., 1 pl.
  • Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. (1999) Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-Bearing Mollusca of Japan. Elle Scientific Publications, Yao, Japan, 749 pp