Crithe

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Crithe

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Subkingdom: Eumetazoa
Superphylum: Protostomia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Orthogastropoda
Superorder: Caenogastropoda
Order: Sorbeoconcha
Suborder: Hypsogastropoda
Infraorder: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Cystiscidae
Subfamily: Cystiscinae
Genus: Crithe
Gould, 1860

Crithe is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Cystiscidae. This genus is sometimes still placed within the Marginellidae.

These tiny gastropods have a shell which is white and is transparent when fresh.

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[edit] Distribution

This genus is found in the Indo-Pacific.

[edit] Shell description

Shell minute to small, white, hyaline; spire usually immersed, rarely low; lip thickened, smooth, lacking denticulation; external varix absent; siphonal notch absent; posterior notch absent; collumela multiplicate, with 6-8 plications plus parietal lirae, plications usually excavated inside aperture due to collabral parietal callus ridge.

[edit] Type species

Crithe atomaria Gould, 1860; M

[edit] Species within the genus

  • Crithe aldingae (Tate, 1878)
  • Crithe algoensis (E.A. Smith, 1901)
  • Crithe atomaria Gould, 1860 T
  • Crithe cossinea Cossignani, 1997
  • Crithe montrouzieri Bavay, 1922
  • Crithe nanaoensis Habe, 1951
  • Crithe nipponica Habe, 1951
  • Crithe tantilla Gould, 1861

[edit] References

  • Coovert, Gary A. and Holly K. Coovert 1995. Revision of the Supraspecific Classification of Marginelliform Gastrapods. The Nautilus 109(2 & 3):43-110. (latest family review)