Rissoina spirata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Rissooidea
Family:	Rissoinidae
Subfamily:	Rissoininae
Genus:	Rissoina
Species:	R. spirata
Binomial name
*Rissoina spirata* Sowerby G.B. I, 1820
Synonyms^[1]
Zebina spirata (Sowerby I, 1825)

Rissoina spirata , common name the spiral risso, is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoinidae.^[1]

Description

The size of the shell varies between 7 mm and 15 mm.

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Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar and the Aldabra Atoll; in the Central Pacific; in the Mediterranean Sea.

^ ^a ^b Rissoina spirata Sowerby G.B. I, 1820. Gofas, S. (2009). Rissoina spirata Sowerby G.B. I, 1820. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=180980 on 9 August 2010 .

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