Crossea is a genus of very small sea snails or micromolluscs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Conradiidae.[1]

Crossea
Drawing of a shell of Crossea biconica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Conradiidae
Genus: Crossea
A. Adams, 1865
Type species
Crossea miranda
A. Adams, 1865
Synonyms[1]
  • Crosseia P. Fischer, 1885 (Invalid: unjustified emendation of Crossea)
  • Crosseola Iredale, 1924

Distribution

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Species in this marine genus occur off the Gulf of Oman, Japan, New Zealand, South Africa; off Australia (New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria).

Species

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Species within the genus Crossea include:[1]

The following species were brought into synonymy:[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Crossea A. Adams, 1865. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 January 2019.
  • A. Adams, 1865, On some new genera of Mollusca from the seas of Japan The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 3, 15: 333
  • Iredale, 1924 Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 49(3): 183, 251
  • Cotton, B. C. (1959). South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Adelaide. : W.L. Hawes. 449 pp., 1 pl.
  • Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. (1999) Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-Bearing Mollusca of Japan. Elle Scientific Publications, Yao, Japan, 749 pp
  • Rubio F. & Rolán E. (2019). New species of Conradiidae Golikov & Starobogatov, 1987 (= Crosseolidae Hickman, 2013) (Gastropoda: Trochoidea) from the Tropical Indo-Pacific – I. The genus Crossea. Novapex. 20(1-2): 13-34
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