Apataxia cerithiiformis

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Apataxia cerithiiformis is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoinidae.[1]

Apataxia cerithiiformis
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A. cerithiiformis
Binomial name
Apataxia cerithiiformis
(Tryon, 1887)
Synonyms[1]
  • Apataxia erecta Laseron, 1956
  • Rissoina (Apataxia) cerithiiformis Tryon, 1887
  • Rissoina (Apataxia) erecta Laseron, C.F., 1956
  • Rissoina costulata Pease, 1867 (Invalid: junior homonym of Rissoina costulata Dunker, 1859; Rissoina harperi is a replacement name)
  • Rissoina harperi Dautzenberg & Bouge, 1933
  • Rissoina miltozona Tomlin, 1915

Description

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Distribution

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This species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Western and Central Pacific.

References

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  1. ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Apataxia cerithiiformis (Tryon, 1887). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=871015 on 2023-10-24
  • Dautzenberg P. & Bouge J.L. (1933). Les mollusques testacés marins des Etablissements Français de l'Océanie. Journal de conchyliologie. 77: 41–108; 145–326; 351–469.
  • Laseron, C. F. (1956). The families Rissoinidae and Rissoidae (Mollusca) from the Solanderian and Dampierian zoogeographical provinces. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 7 (3): 384–484.

page(s): 401-402

  • Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp.
  • Bosch D.T., Dance S.P., Moolenbeek R.G. & Oliver P.G. (1995) Seashells of eastern Arabia. Dubai: Motivate Publishing. 296 pp.
  • Faber, M. & K. Kaiser. (2015). The Rissoinidae of Île Clipperton in the tropical eastern Pacific (Mollusca. Gastropoda). Miscellanea Malacologica. 7, 19-23
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