Sinezona mouchezi

Sinezona mouchezi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Scissurelloidea
Family: Scissurellidae
Genus: Sinezona
Species: S. mouchezi
Binomial name
Sinezona mouchezi
(Vélain, 1877)
Synonyms[1]
  • Schismope mouchezi Vélain, 1877

Sinezona mouchezi is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Scissurellidae, the little slit snails.[1][2][3]

Description

The height of the shell attains 2 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off St Paul Island, Southern Indian Ocean

References

  1. 1 2 Bouchet, P. (2013). Sinezona mouchezi (Vélain, 1877). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=492822 on 2013-02-16
  2. Zelaya D.G. & Geiger D.L. (2007). Species of Scissurellidae and Anatomidae from Sub-Antarctic and Antarctic waters (Gastropopda: Vetigastropoda). Malacologia 49(2):393-443.
  3. Geiger D.L. (2012) Monograph of the little slit shells. Volume 1. Introduction, Scissurellidae. pp. 1-728. Volume 2. Anatomidae, Larocheidae, Depressizonidae, Sutilizonidae, Temnocinclidae. pp. 729-1291. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Monographs Number 7. (30 October 2012)
External identifiers for Sinezona mouchezi
Encyclopedia of Life 17244796
WoRMS 492822


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