Crossea
Drawing of a shell of Crossea biconica
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Conradiidae
Genus:	Crossea A. Adams, 1865
Type species
Crossea miranda A. Adams, 1865
Synonyms[1]
Crosseia P. Fischer, 1885 (Invalid: unjustified emendation of Crossea) Crosseola Iredale, 1924

Crossea is a genus of very small sea snails or micromolluscs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Conradiidae.^[1]

Distribution

Species in this marine genus occur off the Gulf of Oman, Japan, New Zealand, South Africa; off Australia (New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria).

Species

Species within the genus Crossea include:^[1]

• Crossea alliciens Melvill, 1910
• Crossea biconica Hedley, 1902
• Crossea cordata Rubio & Rolán, 2019
• Crossea eryma Melvill, 1906
• Crossea exornata Rubio & Rolán, 2019
• Crossea extrema Rubio & Rolán, 2019
• Crossea gatliffi Hedley, 1902
• Crossea gemmata Hedley, 1912
• Crossea miranda A. Adams, 1865
• Crossea nicober Rubio & Rolán, 2019
• Crossea regularis Rubio & Rolán, 2019
• Crossea sepcris Rubio & Rolán, 2019
• Crossea spiralis Rubio & Rolán, 2019
• Crossea striata Watson, 1883
• Crossea ulevidens Rubio & Rolán, 2019
• Crossea ultidepre Rubio & Rolán, 2019
• Crossea vanuatuensis Rubio & Rolán, 2019
• Crossea veraspiralis Rubio & Rolán, 2019
• Crossea victori Poppe, Tagaro & Stahlschmidt, 2015

The following species were brought into synonymy:^[1]

• Crossea agulhasensis Thiele, J. 1925: synonym of Crossea striata Watson, 1883
• Crossea bellula A. Adams, 1865: synonym of Crosseola bellula (A. Adams, 1865) (original combination)
• Crossea cancellata Tenison-Woods, 1878: synonym of Crosseola cancellata (Tenison Woods, 1878) (original combination)
• Crossea carinata Hedley, 1903: synonym of Cirsonella carinata (Hedley, 1903)
• Crossea concinna Angas, 1867: synonym of Crosseola concinna (Angas, 1867)
• Crossea consobrina May, 1915: synonym of Crosseola concinna (Angas, 1867)
• Crossea glabella Murdoch, 1908: synonym of Conjectura glabella (Murdoch, 1908)
• Crossea inverta Hedley, 1907: synonym of Crosseola inverta (Hedley, 1907) (original combination)
• Crossea labiata Tenison-Woods, 1876: synonym of Dolicrossea labiata (Tenison-Woods, 1876)
• Crossea naticoides Hedley, C., 1907: synonym of Cirsonella naticoides (Hedley, 1907); synonym of Cirsonella weldii (Tenison-Woods, 1877)

References

• A. Adams, 1865, On some new genera of Mollusca from the seas of Japan The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 3, 15: 333
• Iredale, 1924 Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 49(3): 183, 251
• Cotton, B. C. (1959). South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Adelaide. : W.L. Hawes. 449 pp., 1 pl.
• Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. (1999) Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-Bearing Mollusca of Japan. Elle Scientific Publications, Yao, Japan, 749 pp
• Rubio F. & Rolán E. (2019). New species of Conradiidae Golikov & Starobogatov, 1987 (= Crosseolidae Hickman, 2013) (Gastropoda: Trochoidea) from the Tropical Indo-Pacific – I. The genus Crossea. Novapex. 20(1-2): 13-34

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