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Rissoa

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Rissoa is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Rissoidae.

Species

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Genus

  1. PhylumMollusca
  2. ClassGastropoda
  3. OrderLittorinimorpha
  4. FamilyRissoidae
Habitatmarine, brackish

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
1,513
With media
81
Family
Rissoidae
Collections
RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, NHMUK
Recorded in
France, Norway, United States, United Kingdom, Guernsey, Canada, China, South Africa

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Encyclopedic overview

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Rissoa is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Rissoidae.

The genus was first introduced by M. de Freminville for some small shells observed by M. Antoine Risso, a distinguished naturalist of Nice, France. They were described by M. Demarest in 1814 in the "New Bulletin of the Philomatic Society".

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