Ecrobia maritima is a species of very small aquatic snail, an operculate gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae.[2]

Ecrobia maritima
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Hydrobiidae
Genus: Ecrobia
Species:
E. maritima
Binomial name
Ecrobia maritima
(Milaschewitsch, 1916)[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Ventrosia maritima (Milaschewitsch, 1916)

Description edit

The size of an adult shell reaches 4 mm.

Distribution edit

Ecrobia maritima live in Pomorie Lake, a hyperhaline lagoon in eastern Bulgaria. Western Europe, Tunisia, the Peloponnesus and the Corinthian Gulf, all in the Ionian Sea, as well as — shockingly — the Black Sea coast in Romania, are habitats for E. ventrosa. Both the Black Sea and the Aegean Sea have been home to E. maritima.[3][4]

References edit

  1. ^ Milaschewitch K. O. (1916). Molliuski cernego i Azovoskogo Morei. Fauna Rossi i koprelnih stran 5-12 pp. 312. [in russo:]. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 9 August 2010.
  2. ^ a b Ecrobia maritima (Milaschewitsch, 1916). Gofas, S. (2010). Ecrobia maritima (Milaschewitsch, 1916). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=574097 on 14 June 2011 .
  3. ^ Osikowski, Artur; Hofman, Sebastian; Georgiev, Dilian; Kalcheva, Silviya; Falniowski, Andrzej (August 2016). "Aquatic SnailsEcrobia maritima(Milaschewitsch, 1916) andE. Ventrosa(Montagu, 1803) (Caenogastropoda: Hydrobiidae) in the East Mediterranean and Black Sea". Annales Zoologici. 66 (3): 477–486. doi:10.3161/00034541anz2016.66.3.012. ISSN 0003-4541. S2CID 89399139.
  4. ^ Silviya., Georgiev, Dilân Georgiev. Hofman, Sebastian. Kalcheva (2015). Aquatic snails Ecrobia maritima (Milaschewitsch, 1916) and E. ventrosa (Montagu, 1803) (Caenogastropoda: Hydrobiidae) in the east Mediterranean and Black Sea. OCLC 999079795.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Kevrekidis T., Wilke T. & Mogias A. (2005). When DNA puts ecological works back on the right track: genetic assessment and distribution patterns of mudsnail populations in the Evros Delta lagoons. Archiv für Hydrobiologie vol. 162(1): 19-35