Cystiscus angasi is a species of very small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Cystiscidae.[2]

Cystiscus angasi
Shell of Cystiscus angasi (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Cystiscidae
Subfamily: Cystiscinae
Genus: Cystiscus
Species:
C. angasi
Binomial name
Cystiscus angasi
(Crosse, 1870)[1]
Synonyms
  • Cystiscus angasi var. melania (Laseron, 1948)
  • Euliginella angasi (Crosse, 1870)
  • Marginella amphora Laseron, 1948
  • Marginella angasi Crosse, 1870 (original combination)
  • Marginella angasi var. melania Laseron, 1958
  • Marginella minima Petterd, 1884
  • Marginella shorehami Pritchard & Gatliff, 1899
  • Marginella simsoni Tate & May, 1900

Description edit

The size of the shell attains 1.8 mm.

 
Specimen from Mauritius

Distribution edit

This marine species was found off Port Jackson, Australia.

References edit

  1. ^ Crosse, Joseph Charles Hippolyte (1870). "Diagnoses molluscorum novorum". Journal de Conchyliologie. 18: 301–304. Retrieved 12 July 2020.
  2. ^ Cystiscus angasi (Crosse, 1870). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on July 2020.

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