Crosseola bellula explained

Crosseola bellula is a species of small sea snail or micromollusc, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Conradiidae.^[1]

Description

The height of the shell attains 2 mm. The white shell has a depressed turbinate shape. The whorls contain spiral lirae and lack varices. The interstices are neatly cancellated. The simple outer lip is thin and has an acute margin.^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Philippines and Japan.

Sources

• Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. (1999) Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-Bearing Mollusca of Japan. Elle Scientific Publications, Yao, Japan, 749 pp
• Rubio F. & Rolán E. (2017). New species of Crosseolidae Hickman, 2013 (Gastropoda) from the Tropical Indo-Pacific. Novapex. 18(1-2): 17-34
• Rubio F. & Rolán E. (2019). New species of Conradiidae Golikov & Starobogatov, 1987 (= Crosseolidae Hickman, 2013) (Gastropoda: Trochoidea) from the Tropical Indo-Pacific II. The genus Crosseola and the description of Crossolida n. gen. Novapex. 20(3): 49–91.

External links

• World Register of Marine Species
• Adams A. (1865). On some new genera of Mollusca from the seas of Japan. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. ser. 3, 15: 322-324

Notes and References

1. MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Crosseola bellula (A. Adams, 1865). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=997989 on 2020-01-27
2. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 1 January 1865. BiodiversityLibrary.org. 3rd ser. v. 15 (1865). 19 April 2017.