Atys riiseanus is a species of small tropical sea snail, a bubble snail, a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Haminoeidae, the haminoea bubble snails.
Distribution
This marine species occurs in the Gulf of Mexico and in the Caribbean Sea (Curaçao, Sint Maarten).
Description
The length of the shell of this species attains 10.5 mm, its diameter 5 mm.
References
- Nowell-Usticke, G.W. (1971) A Supplementary Listing of New Shells (Illustrated). Revised Edition. To be Added to the Check List of the Marine Shells of St. Croix. Lane Press, Burlington, Vermont, 32 pp., 6 pls.
- Rosenberg, G.; Moretzsohn, F.; GarcÃÂa, E. F. (2009). Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579âÂÂ699 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of MexicoâÂÂOrigins, Waters, and Biota. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas
- Jensen, R. H. (1997). A Checklist and Bibliography of the Marine Molluscs of Bermuda. Unp. , 547 pp
- Faber, M. J. (2005). The Caribbean marine gastropods described by Otto Andreas Lawson Mørch. 1: some type specimens and identifications (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia). Miscellanea Malacologica. 1 (5): 81âÂÂ99.
- Jong, K.M. de & Coomans, H.E. 1988. Marine gastropods from Curaçao, Aruba and Bonaire. 261 pp.. E.H. Brill, Leiden.
- Lamy, D. & Pointier, J.-P. 2017. Marine and freshwater Molluscs of the French Caribbean. Vol. 1. 388pp. PLB Editions.
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