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Class
Gastropoda 
 
Class_C
腹足綱 
Order
Mesogastropoda 
Order_C
中腹足目 
Family
Rissoidae 
Family_C
麂眼螺科 
Genus_C
 
Scientific Name
Rissoa pellucida
Nomenclator
(Powell, 1937) 
Chinese Name
 
Common_C
 
Synonym
 
Common_E
 
World Distribution

 
Taiwan Distribution
綠島 
Habitat
At 92 meters depth of Three Kings Islands, New Zealand is the fatherland. It is also found as beach drift at Lutao, Taiwan. 
Character
Shell, minute, subtranluscent, fragile, oval-conic with apex, blunt. Mature whorls, 3-4 with body whorl, large, inflated; sutures, impressed. A few ribs, narrow, short on the body whorl; color, pale white but reddish brown at bottom.
 
Reference
200163 
Remark
2004新紀錄種 迷你貝
 Mini shell


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