Superfamily Rissooidea Rank Species | Scientific name Crisilla picta | |
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Class Gastropodaclade Caenogastropodaclade Hypsogastropodaclade Littorinimorpha | ||
Alvinia gallinacea is a species of minute sea snail with an operculum; this organism is a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.
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Original description
Crisilla picta was originally collected by Reverend Robert Boog Watson in Madeira and it was sent to British malacologist John Gwyn Jeffreys, who described it as a new species under name Rissoa picta in 1867. Jeffreys's original text (the type description) reads as follows:
The height of the shell is 0.075 inches (1.9 mm). The width of the shell is 0.05 inches (1.3 mm).
References
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