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A new Rissoina species (Gastropoda: Rissoinidae) from the southeastern Pacific
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1  Department of Zoology, Faculty of Zoological and Oceanographic Sciences, Campus Concepción, University of Concepción, Concepción 4070386, Chile
2  Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Mathematics, and the Environment, Metropolitan Technological University, Santiago 7800003, Chile
Academic Editor: Mathias Harzhauser

Published: 01 December 2025 by MDPI in The 1st International Online Conference on Taxonomy session Animal Taxonomy
Abstract:

We describe a new species of the genus Rissoina d’Orbigny, 1841, from the southeastern Pacific, representing the second species of this genus recorded from the continental coast of Chile. The new species was collected from coarse sand near the port of Caldera, Región de Atacama, northern Chile. The new species is distinguished from other southeastern Pacific Rissoina species by the absence of axial ribs, a characteristic brownish-caramel coloration, and a distinctive spiral microsculpture composed of very fine, regularly spaced rows of shallow, elongated, ovate-rectangular depressions separated by irregular cords. The discovery of this previously undocumented micromollusk within a relatively restricted geographic area highlights the need for further taxonomic studies on small-sized mollusks in the region, which represent a significant component of the southeastern Pacific malacofauna.

Keywords: Micromolluscs; Littorinomorpha; Chile; Perú; Shallow water
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