Gabrielona pisinna

Gabrielona pisinna
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Phasianelloidea
Family: Phasianellidae
Genus: Gabrielona
Species: G. pisinna
Binomial name
Gabrielona pisinna
Robertson, 1973

Gabrielona pisinna, common name the tiny pheasant, is a species of small sea snail with calcareous opercula, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Phasianellidae, the pheasant snails.[1]

Description

The size of the shell varies between 0.34 mm and 1.1 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Mauritius and in the Pacific Ocean off New Caledonia

References

  1. Rosenberg, G. (2012). Gabrielona pisinna Robertson, 1973. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=594541 on 2013-02-10
External identifiers for Gabrielona pisinna
NCBI 335757
WoRMS 594541


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