Schwartziella paradoxa is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Zebinidae.[1]
| Schwartziella paradoxa | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Zebinidae |
| Genus: | Schwartziella |
| Species: | S. paradoxa
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| Binomial name | |
| Schwartziella paradoxa Rolán & Luque, 2000
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Description
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The height of the shell reaches a length of 2.7 millimeters. Schwartziella paradoxa differs from any other species of Schwartziella found in Cape Verde by having prominent axial ribs on first whorls of its shell, which are absent on last whorl.[2]
Distribution
editThis species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off the Cape Verdes.
References
edit- ^ Schwartziella paradoxa Rolán & Luque, 2000. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 3 December 2018.
- ^ Sociedad Española de Malacología (1981). Iberus : revista de la Sociedad Española de Malacología (in Spanish). Smithsonian Libraries. Barcelona : La Sociedad. p. 78.
- Rolán E. & Luque Á.A. 2000. The subfamily Rissoininae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Rissoidae) in the Cape Verde Archipelago (West África). Iberus 18(1): 78-80
- Rolán E., 2005. Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda.