Setia aartseni
Setia aartseni | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
Superfamily: | Rissooidea |
Family: | Rissoidae |
Genus: | Setia |
Species: | S. aartseni |
Binomial name | |
Setia aartseni (Verduin, 1984) | |
Setia aartseni is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.[1]
Description
Shell color ranges from creamy white to a dark brown, often with splotched patterning. Its average size is about 1.5 millimeters.
Distribution
It is most commonly founds around the southern Spanish coast, near the Gibraltar strait and the Alboran Sea.[2]
References
- ↑ Setia aartseni (Verduin, 1984). Gofas, S. (2009). Setia aartseni (Verduin, 1984). 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=141378 on 9 August 2010.
- ↑ Worldwide Mollusk Species Database