Crossea

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title: "Crossea" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["crossea", "conradiidae", "gastropod-genera"] description: "Genus of gastropods" topic_path: "general/crossea" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossea" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Genus of gastropods ::

| image = Crossea biconica 001.jpg | image_caption = Drawing of a shell of Crossea biconica | display_parents = 2 | taxon = Crossea | authority = A. Adams, 1865 | synonyms_ref = | synonyms =

• Crosseia P. Fischer, 1885 (Invalid: unjustified emendation of Crossea)
• Crosseola Iredale, 1924 | type_species = Crossea miranda | type_species_authority = A. Adams, 1865

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

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:

• 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:

• 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

References

1. {{WRMS species. 582313. ''Crossea'' A. Adams, 1865. 6 January 2019

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