Gibberula miliaria

Gibberula miliaria
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. miliaria
Binomial name
	Gibberula miliaria; (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
	Persicula miliaria (Linnaeus, 1758); Marginella miliacea Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de, 1822; Marginella zonata Swainson, W.A., 1840 (nomen dubium); Marginella oryza Doublier, 1853; Marginella majuscula Bucquoy, E.J., Ph. Dautzenberg & G.F. Dollfus, 1883;

Gibberula miliaria is a species of very small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Cystiscidae.^[1]

Description

The shell size varies between 4.5 mm and 7.5 mm

This species is distributed in European waters (along Spain and Portugal), in the Mediterraneran Sea (along Apulia and Greece) and in the Atlantic Ocean along the Canary Islands and Mauritania.

Wolff, W.J.; Duiven, P.; Esselink, P.; Gueve, A. (1993). Biomass of macrobenthic tidal flat fauna of the Banc d'Arguin, Mauritania. Hydrobiologia 258(1-3): 151-163
Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180-213

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