Crithe
| Crithe | |
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| Crithe caledonica | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Cystiscidae |
| Subfamily: | Cystiscinae |
| Genus: | Crithe Gould, 1860[1] |
| Type species | |
| Crithe atomaria | |
Crithe is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Cystiscidae. This genus is sometimes still placed within the Marginellidae.
These tiny gastropods have a shell which is colorless and is transparent when fresh.
Distribution
[edit | edit source]This genus is found in the Indo-Pacific.
Shell description
[edit | edit source]Shell minute to small, white, hyaline; spire usually immersed, rarely low; lip thickened, smooth, lacking denticulation; external varix absent; siphonal notch absent; posterior notch absent; columella multiplicate, with 6-8 plications plus parietal lirae, plications usually excavated inside aperture due to collabral parietal callus ridge.
Species
[edit | edit source]Species within the genus Crithe include:[2]
- Crithe algoensis (Smith, 1901)[3]
- Crithe atomaria Gould, 1860[1]
- Crithe caledonica Boyer, 2003[4]
- Crithe cassidiformis Boyer, 2018[5]
- Crithe cossinea Cossignani, 1997[6][self-published source]
- Crithe gofasi Boyer, 2003[4]
- Crithe huna (Kay, 1979)
- Crithe marianoi Cossignani, 2001[7][self-published source]
- Crithe nanaoensis (Habe, 1951)
- Crithe nipponica (Habe, 1951)
- Crithe togatulus Boyer, 2018
References
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- Coovert, Gary A. and Holly K. Coovert 1995. Revision of the Supraspecific Classification of Marginelliform Gastropods. The Nautilus 109(2 & 3):43-110. (latest family review)
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