Rissoa [SEP] parent taxon
Rissoa
Rissoa is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Rissoidae.
The genus was first introduced by M. de Freminville for some small shells observed by M. Antoine Risso, a distinguished naturalist of Nice, France. They were described by M. Demarest in 1814 in the "New Bulletin of the Philomatic Society".
Description.
The soft body of the snail is elongated and spiral. The somewhat prolonged mouth has a proboscis. The tentacles are awl-shaped with the eyes
" (Monterosato, 1917)
- "Rissoa auriformis" Pallary, 1904
- "Rissoa auriscalpium" (Linnaeus, 1758)
- "Rissoa curta" Dall, 1927: (taxon inquirendum, non Dujardin, 1837)
- "Rissoa decorata" Philippi, 1846
- "Rissoa euxinica" Milaschevich, 1909
- "Rissoa frauenfeldiana" Brusina, 1868
- "Rissoa gemmula" Fischer P. in de Folin, 1869
- "Rissoa gomerica" (Nordsieck & Talavera, 1979)
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