Crosseola bellula is a species of small sea snail or micromollusc, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Conradiidae.

Description

The height of the shell attains 2 mm. The white shell has a depressed turbinate shape. The whorls contain spiral lirae and lack varices. The interstices are neatly cancellated. The simple outer lip is thin and has an acute margin.

Crosseola bellula

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Philippines and Japan.

Crosseola bellula

References

Sources

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. (2017). New species of Crosseolidae Hickman, 2013 (Gastropoda) from the Tropical Indo-Pacific. Novapex. 18(1-2): 17-34 Rubio F. & Rolán E. (2019). New species of Conradiidae Golikov & Starobogatov, 1987 (= Crosseolidae Hickman, 2013) (Gastropoda: Trochoidea) from the Tropical Indo-Pacific II. The genus Crosseola and the description of Crossolida n. gen. Novapex. 20(3): 49–91.

Crosseola bellula

External links

To World Register of Marine Species

Adams A. (1865). On some new genera of Mollusca from the seas of Japan. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. ser. 3, 15: 322-324

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Gastropods described in 1865