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Rissoa
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Rissoa is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Rissoidae.[1]
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Rissoa | |
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Shell of Rissoa janusi | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Family: | Rissoidae |
Genus: | Rissoa Freminville in Desmarest, 1814 |
Type species | |
Rissoa ventricosa Desmarest, 1814 | |
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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".[2]