Parviturbo comptus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Skeneidae
Genus: Parviturbo
Species:
P. comptus
Binomial name
Parviturbo comptus
(Woodring, 1928)
Synonyms
  • Fossarus comptus Woodring, 1928
  • Parviturboides comptus (Woodring, 1928)

Parviturbo comptus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Skeneidae.[1]

Description

The size of the shell attains 2.3 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea off Mexico and off the West Indies (Curacao, Puerto Rico)

References

  1. Rosenberg, G. (2012). Parviturbo comptus (Woodring, 1928). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=533251 on 2012-09-01
  • Woodring, W. P. 1928. Miocene Mollusks from Bowden, Jamaica. Part II. Gastropods and discussion of results. Carnegie Institute of Washington Publication 385: vii + 564 pp., 40 pls.


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