Onoba aculeus

Onoba aculeus
Onoba aculeus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Rissoidae
Genus: Onoba
Species: O. aculeus
Binomial name
Onoba aculeus
(Gould, 1841)
Synonyms[1]

Alvania multilineata (Stimpson, 1851)
Onoba aculea (Gould, 1841)

Onoba aculeus, common name the pointed cingula, is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.[1]

Contents

Distribution

Description

The maximum recorded shell length is 4.2 mm.[2]

Habitat

Minimum recorded depth is 0 m.[2] Maximum recorded depth is 115 m.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b Onoba aculeus (Gould, 1841). Gofas, S. (2009). Onoba aculeus (Gould, 1841). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2009) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141308 on 9 August 2010.
  2. ^ a b c Welch J. J. (2010). "The “Island Rule” and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". PLoS ONE 5(1): e8776. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008776.

External links


This Rissoidae-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.