''Crossea'' is a
genus
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of very small
sea snail
Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...
s or
micromollusc
A micromollusc is a shelled mollusc which is extremely small, even at full adult size. The word is usually, but not exclusively, applied to marine molluscs, although in addition, numerous species of land snails and freshwater molluscs also ...
s,
marine gastropod
Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusc
Mollusca is a phylum of protostome, protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant taxon, extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum ...
s in the
family
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Conradiidae
Conradiidae is a taxonomic family (created in 1987 by Golikov & Starobogatov) of very small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs. These genera were previously included in the polyphyletic family Skeneidae. They belong within th ...
.
Distribution
Species in this marine genus occur off the
Gulf of Oman
The Gulf of Oman or Sea of Oman ( ''khalīj ʿumān''; ''daryâ-ye omân''), also known as Gulf of Makran or Sea of Makran ( ''khalīj makrān''; ''daryâ-ye makrān''), is a gulf in the Indian Ocean that connects the Arabian Sea with th ...
,
Japan
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,
New Zealand
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,
South Africa
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; off
Australia
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(New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria).
Species
Species within the genus ''Crossea'' include:
* ''
Crossea alliciens''
Melvill, 1910
* ''
Crossea biconica''
Hedley, 1902
* ''
Crossea cordata''
Rubio & Rolán, 2019
* ''
Crossea eryma''
Melvill, 1906
* ''
Crossea exornata''
Rubio & Rolán, 2019
* ''
Crossea extrema''
Rubio & Rolán, 2019
* ''
Crossea gatliffi''
Hedley, 1902
* ''
Crossea gemmata''
Hedley, 1912
* ''
Crossea miranda
''Crossea'' is a genus of very small sea snails or micromolluscs, Marine (ocean), marine gastropod molluscs in the family (biology), family Conradiidae.
Distribution
Species in this marine genus occur off the Gulf of Oman, Japan, New Zealand, So ...
''
A. Adams, 1865
* ''
Crossea nicober''
Rubio & Rolán, 2019
* ''
Crossea regularis''
Rubio & Rolán, 2019
* ''
Crossea sepcris''
Rubio & Rolán, 2019
* ''
Crossea spiralis''
Rubio & Rolán, 2019
* ''
Crossea striata''
Watson, 1883
* ''
Crossea ulevidens''
Rubio & Rolán, 2019
* ''
Crossea ultidepre''
Rubio & Rolán, 2019
* ''
Crossea vanuatuensis''
Rubio & Rolán, 2019
* ''
Crossea veraspiralis''
Rubio & Rolán, 2019
* ''
Crossea victori''
Poppe, Tagaro & Stahlschmidt, 2015
;The following species were brought into synonymy:
* ''Crossea agulhasensis''
Thiele, J. 1925: synonym of ''
Crossea striata''
Watson, 1883
* ''Crossea bellula''
A. Adams, 1865: synonym of ''
Crosseola bellula
''Crosseola bellula'' is a species of small sea snail or micromollusc, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Conradiidae.MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Crosseola bellula (A. Adams, 1865). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Speci ...
''
(A. Adams, 1865) (original combination)
* ''Crossea cancellata''
Tenison-Woods, 1878: synonym of ''
Crosseola cancellata
''Crosseola cancellata'' is a species of small sea snail or micromollusc, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Conradiidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Crosseola cancellata (Tenison Woods, 1878). Accessed through: World Register ...
''
(Tenison Woods, 1878) (original combination)
* ''Crossea carinata''
Hedley, 1903: synonym of ''
Cirsonella carinata''
(Hedley, 1903)
* ''Crossea concinna''
Angas, 1867: synonym of ''
Crosseola concinna''
(Angas, 1867)
* ''Crossea consobrina''
May, 1915: synonym of ''
Crosseola concinna''
(Angas, 1867)
* ''Crossea glabella''
Murdoch, 1908: synonym of ''
Conjectura glabella''
(Murdoch, 1908)
* ''Crossea inverta''
Hedley, 1907: synonym of ''
Crosseola inverta''
(Hedley, 1907) (original combination)
* ''Crossea labiata''
Tenison-Woods, 1876: synonym of ''
Dolicrossea labiata
''Dolicrossea'' is a genus of small sea snails in the family Elachisinidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. ''Dolicrossea'' Iredale, 1924. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=tax ...
''
(Tenison-Woods, 1876)
* ''Crossea naticoides''
Hedley, C., 1907: synonym of ''
Cirsonella naticoides''
(Hedley, 1907); synonym of ''
Cirsonella weldii''
(Tenison-Woods, 1877)
References
A. Adams, 1865, On some new genera of Mollusca from the seas of Japan ''The Annals and Magazine of Natural History'' ser. 3, 15: 333* Iredale, 1924 ''Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales'', 49(3): 183, 251
* Cotton, B. C. (1959). ''South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda''. Adelaide. : W.L. Hawes. 449 pp., 1 pl.
* Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. (1999) ''Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-Bearing Mollusca of Japan''. Elle Scientific Publications, Yao, Japan, 749 pp
* Rubio F. & Rolán E. (2019). New species of Conradiidae Golikov & Starobogatov, 1987 (= Crosseolidae Hickman, 2013) (Gastropoda: Trochoidea) from the Tropical Indo-Pacific – I. The genus Crossea. Novapex. 20(1-2): 13-34
External links
Fischer P. (1880-1887). Manuel de Conchyliologie et de Paléontologie Conchyliologique. Paris, Savy pp. XXIV + 1369 + pl. 23. Fasc. 1: pp. 1-112 [21. 9. 1880]. Fasc. 2: pp. 113–192 [16. 3. 1881]. Fasc. 3: pp. 193–304 [28. 7. 1881]. Fasc. 4: pp. 305–416 [5. 5. 1882]. Fasc. 5: pp. 417–512 [21. 2. 1883]. Fasc. 6: pp. 513–608 [20. 12. 1883]. Fasc. 7: pp. 609–688 [30. 6. 1884]. Fasc. 8: pp. 689–784 [29. 1. 1885]. Fasc. 9: pp. 785–896 [31. 8. 1885]. Fasc. 10: pp. 897–1008 [30. 4. 1886]. Fasc. 11: pp. 1009–1369 H. (1913). Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca with an atlas of quarto plates. Wellington. xxiii + 1120 pp
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Gastropod genera