Sukashitrochus pulcher

Sukashitrochus pulcher
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Scissurelloidea
Family: Scissurellidae
Genus: Sukashitrochus
Species: S. pulcher
Binomial name
Sukashitrochus pulcher
(Petterd, 1884)
Synonyms[1]
  • Schismope pulchra Petterd, 1884
  • Sinezona pulchra Petterd, W.F., 1884

Sukashitrochus pulcher is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Scissurellidae, the little slit snails.[1][2][3]

Description

The shell grows to a height of 1.5 mm.

Distribution

This marin e species occurs off Northern Queensland to Southwest Western Australia; off Japan and off Vanuatu

References

  1. 1 2 Bouchet, P. (2013). Sukashitrochus pulcher. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=492833 on 2013-02-16
  2. ↑ Geiger D.L. & Jansen P. (2004). New species of Australian Scissurellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) with remarks on Australian and Indo-Malayan species. Zootaxa 714:1-72.
  3. ↑ Geiger D.L. (2012) Monograph of the little slit shells. Volume 1. Introduction, Scissurellidae. pp. 1-728. Volume 2. Anatomidae, Larocheidae, Depressizonidae, Sutilizonidae, Temnocinclidae. pp. 729-1291. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Monographs Number 7. (30 October 2012)
External identifiers for Sukashitrochus pulcher
Encyclopedia of Life 4793742
WoRMS 492833


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