Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Acteonimorpha > Superfamily Rissoelloidea > Family Rissoellidae > Genus Rissoella

Rissoella opalina (Jeffreys, 1848)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Rissoella*	J. E. Gray, 1847	accepted genus name
*Jeffreysia*	Alder, 1850	synonym

Species group names

*Rissoa opalina*	Jeffreys, 1848	synonym

Literature

additional source	Ortea J. (2019). La belleza como recurso contra la tristeza: Descripción de una nueva especie de Rissoella J. E. Gray, 1847 (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) de Lanzarote, islas canarias, como homenaje a Margarita Salas, una ejemplar mujer para la Ciencia. Avicennia. 25: 73-78.
additional source	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.
additional source	Fretter V. (1948). The structure and life history of some minute prosobranchs of rock pools: Skeneopsis planorbis (Fabricius), Omalogyra atomus (Philippi), Rissoella diaphana (Alder) and Rissoella opalina (Jeffreys). Journal of the Biological Assiociation of the U.K. 27: 597-632
additional source	Villari, A. & Scuderi, D. (2022). Mainly Mediterranean Rissoellidae (Heterobranchia Acteonimorpha?) with the description of Rissoella camillae n. sp. Biodiversity Journal. 13(3): 717-728.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Rissoella opalina (Jeffreys, 1848). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:141149