Crithe | |
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Crithe caledonica | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
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.
This genus is found in the Indo-Pacific.
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 within the genus Crithe include: [2]