Vanikoro cuvieriana

Vanikoro cuvieriana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Vanikoroidea
Family:	Vanikoridae
Genus:	Vanikoro
Species:	V. cuvieriana
Binomial name
	Vanikoro cuvieriana; (Recluz, 1845)
Synonyms
	Sigaretus cuvierianus Récluz, 1844 (basionym); Vanikoro rosea Récluz, C., 1845;

Vanikoro cuvieriana is a species of very small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Vanikoridae.^[1]

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 2.5 mm and 10 mm.

This marine species is distributed in the Indian Ocean along the Mascarene Basin and in the Central Pacific Ocean.

^ Vanikoro cuvieriana (Recluz, 1845). WoRMS (2009). Vanikoro cuvieriana (Recluz, 1845). Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=208537 on 14 April 2011 .

Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice
Kabat A.R., Finet Y. & Way K. (1997) Catalogue of the Naticidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) described by C.A. Récluz, including the location of the type specimens. Apex 12(1): 15-26

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