Ecrobia ventrosa

Ecrobia ventrosa
A shell of Ecrobia ventrosa.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Hydrobiidae
Genus: Ecrobia
Species: E. ventrosa
Binomial name
Ecrobia ventrosa
(Montagu), 1803[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Ventrosia ventrosa (Montagu, 1803)
  • Hydrobia acuta auct.non Draparnaud, 1805
  • Hydrobia ventrosa (Montagu, 1803)

Ecrobia ventrosa, common name : the spire snail, is a European species of small brackish water snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae.[2]

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Distribution

This species occurs on the coasts of:

Description

The size of an adult shell reaches 3.7 mm.

References

  1. ^ Montagu G. (1803). Testacea Britannica, or natural history of British shells, marine, land, and fresh-water, including the most minute: systematicallly arranged and embellished with figures. pp. i-xxxvii [= 1-37], [1-2], 1-606, [1-4], Pl. 1-16. London.
  2. ^ a b WoRMS (2010). Ecrobia ventrosa (Montagu, 1803). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=238104 on 14 June 2011

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