Crisilla simulans explained

Crisilla simulans is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.^[1]

Description

Alvania simulans has a small (1.5-2mm) shell that is pearly white in color, and partially translucent.^[2]

Distribution

Crisilla simulans is found in the North Atlantic and European waters.^[3]

References

• Romani, L.; Tisselli, M. & Nofroni, I. (2020). On the alleged presence of Crisilla perminima (Manzoni, 1868) in the Mediterranean Sea (Gastropoda: Littorinimorpha: Rissoidae), with notes on the taxonomy of Alvania simulans Locard, 1886. Bollettino Malacologico. 56 (2): 112-117.

External links

• ocard, A. (1886). Prodrome de malacologie française. Catalogue général des mollusques vivants de France. Mollusques marins. Lyon: H. Georg & Paris: Baillière. x + 778 pp

Notes and References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Crisilla simulans (Locard, 1886). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1473073 on 2023-12-12
2. Web site: Crisilla simulans . 2013-12-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131216055002/http://www.gastropods.com/5/Shell_42845.shtml . 2013-12-16 . dead .
3. Gofas, S. (2015). Alvania simulans Locard, 1886. In: MolluscaBase (2015).