Gibberula burnupi

Gibberula burnupi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Cystiscidae
Subfamily:	Persiculinae
Genus:	Gibberula
Species:	G. burnupi
Binomial name
	Gibberula burnupi; (G.B. Sowerby III, 1897)
Synonyms
	Granula burnupi (Sowerby III, 1897); Marginella burnupi Sowerby, 1897; Marginella lepta Bartsch, P., 1915;

Gibberula burnupi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cystiscidae, the margin snails.^[1]

Description

The shell size varies between 4 mm and 5.2 mm

This species is distributed in the Indian Ocean along Madagascar and South Africa

Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises, III(fasc. 4). Société d'Editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales: Paris. 321-636, plates IV-VII pp.
Kilburn, R.N. & Rippey, E. (1982) Sea Shells of Southern Africa. Macmillan South Africa, Johannesburg, xi + 249 pp. page(s): 113
Lussi M. & Smith G. (1998) Family Cystiscidae Stimpson, 1865. Revision of the family Cystiscidae in South Africa with the introduction of three genera and the description of eight new species. Malacologia Mostra Mondiale 27: 3-23. [October 1998] [
Petit R.E. (2009) George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218.

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