Setia aartseni

Setia aartseni
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

  1. 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.
  2. Worldwide Mollusk Species Database

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