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Cystiscus beqae

species of mollusc

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ5201227 ↗
Source-derived summary

Cystiscus beqae is a species of very small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Cystiscidae.

Description

The size of the shell attains 1.46 mm.

Distribution

This marine species was found off Beqa Island, Fiji.

References

External links

Wakefield A. & McCleery T. 2006. Descriptions of new species of Pacific Cystiscus Stimpson, 1865 (Gastropoda : Cystiscidae). Part 1: species with banded mantle patterns.

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This entry incorporates text from “Cystiscus beqae” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.