Rissoina bertholleti

Rissoina bertholleti
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Rissoidae
Subfamily: Rissoininae
Genus: Rissoina
Species: R. bertholleti
Binomial name
Rissoina bertholleti
Issel, 1869

Rissoina bertholleti is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.[1]

==Description== The shell is elongated and thick. It has seven to eight convex whorls. There is a thick cord running over the abapical end of the body whorl. the color is a whitish with a blurry brown supresutural band, fading out on the body whorl. the size is between six and ten mm. ==Distribution== world wide: red sea and indian ocean

References

  1. ^ Rissoina bertholleti Issel, 1869. Gofas, S. (2009). Rissoina bertholleti Issel, 1869. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141375 on 9 August 2010.