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Incisura rosea

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Species of gastropod

Incisura rosea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Scissurelloidea
Family: Scissurellidae
Genus: Incisura
Species: I. rosea
Binomial name
Incisura rosea
(Hedley, 1904)
Synonyms
  • Incisura (Scissurona) rosea rosea (Hedley, 1904)
  • Scissurona rosea (Hedley, 1904)
  • Scissurella rosea Hedley, 1904

Incisura rosea, common name the rosy slit shell, is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Scissurellidae.

Description

The shell grows to a height of 1.2 mm.

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Distribution

This marine species occurs off New Zealand.

References

  1. WoRMS (2010). Incisura rosea. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=492790 on 2012-07-18
  • Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
  • 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

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Taxon identifiers
Incisura rosea


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