Sinezona confusa

Sinezona confusa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily:	Scissurelloidea
Family:	Scissurellidae
Subfamily:	Scissurellinae
Genus:	Sinezona
Species:	S. confusa
Binomial name
Sinezona confusa Rolán & Luque, 1994
Synonyms
Schismope cingulata auct. non O. G. Costa, 1861 Schismope columbiana Bandel, 1998 Scissurella columbiana (Bandel, 1998) Sinezona hawaiiensis Geiger, D.L. & J.H. McLean, 2010 Woodwardia cingulata auct. non O. G. Costa, 1861

Sinezona confusa is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Scissurellidae.

Description

The shell reaches a height of 1.5 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea and in the Atlantic Ocean off Brazil.

References

• Bandel, K. 1998. Scissurellidae als Modell für die Variationsbreite einer natürlichen Einheit der Schlitzbandschnecken (Mollusca, Archaeogastropoda). Mitteilungen aus dem Geologisch-paläontogischen Institut der Universität Hamburg 81: 1-120, 23 pls
• Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. García. 2009. Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
• Geiger D.L. & McLean J.H. (2010) New species and records of Scissurellidae and Anatomidae from the Americas (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda). Zootaxa 2356: 1-35.
• Geiger D.L. (2012) Monograph of the little slit shells. Volume 1. Introduction, Scissurellidae. pp. 1-728. Volume 2. Anatomidae, Larocheidae, Depressizonidae, Sutilizonidae, Temnocinclidae. pp. 729-1291. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Monographs Number 7.