Trabecula jeffreysiana Monterosato 1884

Trabecula jeffreysiana is a species of very small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.^[2][3]

Taxonomy

This species has been generally cited in the combinations Chrysallida jeffreysiana or Odostomella jeffreysiana but must be restored to its original combination since Trabecula is currently treated as a valid genus.^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Mediterranean Sea and in the Atlantic Ocean off Madeira, the Canary Islands and Mauritania.^[2]

References

• Monterosato T. A. (di) (1884). Nomenclatura generica e specifica di alcune conchiglie mediterranee. Palermo, Virzi, 152 pp.
• van der Linden J. & Eikenboom J.C.A. (1992) On the taxonomy of the Recent species of the genus Chrysallida Carpenter from Europe, the Canary Islands and the Azores. Basteria 56: 3-63.
• Rolán E., 2005. Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda.