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Scissurellidae
Sign in to saveScissurellidae, sometimes known by the common name little slit snails, are a taxonomic family of minute sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the clade Vetigastropoda (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Species
scissurelles
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderLepetellida
- FamilyScissurellidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 362
- With media
- 9
- Family
- Scissurellidae
- Collections
- UCMP, SIO, USNM, NMV, FMNH
- Recorded in
- French Polynesia, United States, Australia, Mexico, Argentina, Philippines
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Scissurelloidea
- Image
- Scissurella costata 001.jpg
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- Category:Scissurellidae
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- Scissurellidae
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- Scissurellidae
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Distribution
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Scissurellidae, sometimes known by the common name little slit snails, are a taxonomic family of minute sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the clade Vetigastropoda (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
The shells of these snails vary in adult size from less than 6 mm to less than 1 mm.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Scissurellidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.