Gibberula burnupi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cystiscidae, the margin snails.[1]
| Gibberula burnupi | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Cystiscidae |
| Subfamily: | Cystiscinae |
| Genus: | Gibberula |
| Species: | G. burnupi
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| Binomial name | |
| Gibberula burnupi (Sowerby III, 1897)
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Description
editThe shell size varies between 4 mm and 5.2 mm
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Distribution
editThis species is distributed in the Indian Ocean along Madagascar and South Africa.
References
edit- ^ a b Gibberula burnupi (G.B. Sowerby III, 1897). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 10 December 2018.
- Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises, III(fasc. 4). Société d'Editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales: Paris. 321–636, plates IV-VII pp.
- Kilburn, R.N. & Rippey, E. (1982) Sea Shells of Southern Africa. Macmillan South Africa, Johannesburg, xi + 249 pp. page(s): 113
- Lussi M. & Smith G. (1998) Family Cystiscidae Stimpson, 1865. Revision of the family Cystiscidae in South Africa with the introduction of three genera and the description of eight new species. Malacologia Mostra Mondiale 27: 3–23. [October 1998] [
- Petit R.E. (2009) George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218.