Ecrobia maritima explained
Ecrobia maritima is a species of very small aquatic snail, an operculate gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae.
Description
The size of an adult shell reaches 4 mm.
Distribution
Ecrobia maritima live in Pomorie Lake, a hyperhaline lagoon in eastern Bulgaria. Western Europe, Tunisia, the Peloponnesus and the Corinthian Gulf, all in the Ionian Sea, as well as — shockingly — the Black Sea coast in Romania, are habitats for E. ventrosa. Both the Black Sea and the Aegean Sea have been home to E. maritima.[1] [2]
References
- Kevrekidis T., Wilke T. & Mogias A. (2005). When DNA puts ecological works back on the right track: genetic assessment and distribution patterns of mudsnail populations in the Evros Delta lagoons. Archiv für Hydrobiologie vol. 162(1): 19-35
Notes and References
- Osikowski . Artur . Hofman . Sebastian . Georgiev . Dilian . Kalcheva . Silviya . Falniowski . Andrzej . August 2016 . Aquatic SnailsEcrobia maritima(Milaschewitsch, 1916) andE. Ventrosa(Montagu, 1803) (Caenogastropoda: Hydrobiidae) in the East Mediterranean and Black Sea . Annales Zoologici . 66 . 3 . 477–486 . 10.3161/00034541anz2016.66.3.012 . 89399139 . 0003-4541.
- Book: Silviya., Georgiev, Dilân Georgiev. Hofman, Sebastian. Kalcheva . Aquatic snails Ecrobia maritima (Milaschewitsch, 1916) and E. ventrosa (Montagu, 1803) (Caenogastropoda: Hydrobiidae) in the east Mediterranean and Black Sea . 2015 . 999079795.
