Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Littorinimorpha > Superfamily Rissooidea > Family Rissoidae > Genus Pusillina

Pusillina inconspicua (Alder, 1844)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Pusillina*	Monterosato, 1884	accepted genus name
*Sabanea*	Leach in Gray, 1847 sensu Monterosato, 1884	orthographic variant
*Pusillina (Pusillina)*	Monterosato, 1884	synonym
*Pusillina (Vicinirissoa)*	Ponder, 1985	synonym
*Rissoa (Sabanea)*	Gray, 1847 sensu Monterosato, 1884	synonym
*Turboella (Mutiturboella)*	F. Nordsieck, 1972	synonym
*Turboella (Radiatia)*	F. Nordsieck, 1972	synonym
*Turgidina*	Verduin, 1979	synonym

Species group names

*Pusillina diversa*	(F. Nordsieck, 1972)	synonym
*Rissoa inconspicua*	Alder, 1844	synonym
*Rissoa inconspicua var. ventrosa*	Jeffreys, 1867	synonym
*Turboella densa*	F. Nordsieck, 1972	synonym
*Turboella diversa*	F. Nordsieck, 1972	synonym
*Turboella diversa diversiella*	F. Nordsieck, 1972	synonym
*Turboella inconspicua*	(Alder, 1844)	synonym
*Turboella inconspicua distans*	F. Nordsieck, 1972	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Danish: tyndskallet tangsnegl sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: dwerg-drijfhoren sources: de Bruyne, R.H.; Bank, R.A.; Adema, J.P.H.M.; Perk, F.A. (1994). Nederlandse naamlijst van de weekdieren (Mollusca) van Nederland en Belgie: feestuitgave ter gelegenheid van het zestig-jarig jubileum van de Nederlandse Malacologische Vereniging [Dutch namelist of the Mollusca from the Netherlands and Belgium: festive edition at the occasion of the 60-year jubilee of the Dutch Malacological Society]. Backhuys Publishers: Leiden, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-73348-33-1. 149 pp.

English: spotted risso sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

German: Gefleckte Zwergschnecke sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

Swedish: mindre bandtångsnäcka

Literature

basis of record	Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213.
additional source	Verduin A. (1976). On the systematics of recent Rissoa of the subgenus Turboella Gray, 1847, from the Mediterranean and European Atlantic coasts. Basteria. 40: 21-73.
additional source	Gofas S. (1999). The West African Rissoidae (Gastropoda: Rissooidea) and their similarities to some European species. The Nautilus 113(3): 78-101.
additional source	de Kluijver, M. J.; Ingalsuo, S. S.; de Bruyne, R. H. (2000). Macrobenthos of the North Sea [CD-ROM]: 1. Keys to Mollusca and Brachiopoda. World Biodiversity Database CD-ROM Series. Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification (ETI): Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN 3-540-14706-3. 1 cd-rom.
additional source	Ponder, W. F. (1985). A review of the genera of the Rissoidae (Mollusca: Mesogastropoda: Rissoacea). Records of the Australian Museum. Suppl. 4: 1-221. [12 February 1985].
additional source	Warén, A. (1996). Ecology and Systematics of the North European species of Rissoa and Pusillina (Prosobranchia: Rissoidae). Journal of the Marine biological Association of the UK. 76: 1013-1059.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Pusillina inconspicua (Alder, 1844). 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:141334