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Gibberula miliaria is a species of very small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Cystiscidae.^[1]

Description

The shell size varies between 4.5 mm and 7.5 mm

Distribution

This species occurs in European waters (off Spain and Portugal), in the Mediterraneran Sea (offApulia and Greece) and in the Atlantic Ocean off the Canary Islands and Mauritania.

References

• Arnaud, P. M., 1978. Révision des taxa malacologiques méditerrannéens introduits par Antoine Risso. Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Nice "1977"5: 101-150
• Wolff, W.J.; Duiven, P.; Esselink, P.; Gueve, A. (1993). Biomass of macrobenthic tidal flat fauna of the Banc d'Arguin, Mauritania. Hydrobiologia 258(1-3): 151-163
• Gofas S. (1990). Le genre Gibberula (Marginellidae) en Méditerranée. Lavori, Società Italiana di Malacologia 23: 113-139 page(s): 125-127; note: lectotype designated