Parviturbo parvissima

Parviturbo parvissima
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Skeneidae
Genus: Parviturbo
Species: P. parvissima
Binomial name
Parviturbo parvissima
Engl, 2001

Parviturbo parvissima is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Skeneidae.[1]

Description

The size of the shell attains 1 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Réunion and the Cocos-Keeling Islands, Indian Ocean, but is apparently a Pacific species.

References


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