Apataxia cerithiiformis explained

Apataxia cerithiiformis is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoinidae.^[1]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Western and Central Pacific.

References

• Dautzenberg P. & Bouge J.L. (1933). Les mollusques testacés marins des Etablissements Français de l'Océanie. Journal de conchyliologie. 77: 41–108; 145–326; 351–469.
• Laseron, C. F. (1956). The families Rissoinidae and Rissoidae (Mollusca) from the Solanderian and Dampierian zoogeographical provinces. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 7 (3): 384–484.

page(s): 401-402

• Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp.
• Bosch D.T., Dance S.P., Moolenbeek R.G. & Oliver P.G. (1995) Seashells of eastern Arabia. Dubai: Motivate Publishing. 296 pp.
• Faber, M. & K. Kaiser. (2015). The Rissoinidae of Île Clipperton in the tropical eastern Pacific (Mollusca. Gastropoda). Miscellanea Malacologica. 7, 19-23

External links

• Tryon, G. W. (1887). Manual of conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, ser. 1, vol. 9: Solariidae, Ianthinidae, Trichotropidae, Scalariidae, Cerithiidae, Rissoidae, Littorinidae. pp 1-488, pls 1-71. Philadelphia, published by the author.
• Tomlin, J. R. le B. (1915). Description of a new Rissoina. Journal of Conchology. 14(11): 321-322
• Pease, W. H. (1868). Description of sixty-five new species of marine Gastropodae, inhabiting Polynesia. American Journal of Conchology. 3(4): 271-297, pls 23-24.
• Sleurs W.J.M. (1993) A revision of the Recent species of Rissoina (Moerchiella), R. (Apataxia), R. (Ailinzebina) and R. (Pachyrissoina) (Gastropoda: Rissoidae). Bull. K. Belg. Inst. Nat. Wet. 63: 71-135.

Notes and References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Apataxia cerithiiformis (Tryon, 1887). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=871015 on 2023-10-24