Pusillina tumidula

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Pusillina tumidula is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.[1]

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Pusillina tumidula
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Rissoidae
Genus: Pusillina
Species:
P. tumidula
Binomial name
Pusillina tumidula
(G. O. Sars, 1878)
Synonyms[1]
  • Alvania minuta (Golikov & Fedjakov, 1987) (homonym of † Alvania minuta (H. J. Finlay, 1924))
  • Cingula griegi (Friele, 1879)
  • Cingula tumidula G. O. Sars, 1878 (original combination)
  • Obtusella tumidula (G. O. Sars, 1878)
  • Punctulum minutum A. N. Golikov & Fedjakov, 1987
  • Pusillina (Vicinirissoa) tumidula (G. O. Sars, 1878) · alternate representation
  • Putilla (Pseudosetia) tumidula (G. O. Sars, 1878) superseded combination
  • Rissoa (Microsetia) tumidula (G. O. Sars, 1878) superseded combination
  • Rissoa griegi Friele, 1879
  • Setia tumidula (G. O. Sars, 1878)
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Description

The shell grows to a length of 2 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in Arctic waters off the White Sea and the Okhotsk Sea.

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