Limacina retroversa

Limacina retroversa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Subkingdom: Metazoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Euopisthobranchia
clade Thecosomata
Superfamily: Cavolinioidea
Family: Limacinidae
Genus: Limacina
Species: L. retroversa
Binomial name
Limacina retroversa
(Fleming, 1823)[1]
Synonyms[2][3]
  • Fusus retroversus Fleming, 1823
  • Heterofusus retroversus Fleming, 1823
  • Spiralis retroversa
  • Spirialis australis Eydoux & Souleyet, 1840
  • Limacina balea Møller, 1841
  • Spirialis balea (Møller, 1841)
  • Peracle flemingii Forbes, 1844
  • Scaea stenogyra Philippi, 1844
  • Spirialis jeffreysii Forbes & Hanley, 1849
  • Spirialis macandrewi Forbes & Hanley, 1849
  • Spirialis gouldii Stimpson, 1851
  • Heterofusus alexandri Verrill, 1872

Limacina retroversa is a species of swimming predatory sea snail in the family Limacinidae,[3] that belong to the group commonly known as sea butterflies (Thecosomata).

Contents

Distribution

Ecology

Pteropod Clione limacina feeds only on genus Limacina: on Limacina helicina and on Limacina retroversa.[5]

References

  1. ^ Fleming J. (1823). "On a reversed species of Fusus (Fusus retroversus)". Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society, Edinburgh, 4(2): 498-500, plate 15, figure 2.
  2. ^ "Limacina retroversa". CLEMAM, accessed 3 February 2011.
  3. ^ a b Gofas, S. (2011). Limacina retroversa. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140227 on 2011-02-03
  4. ^ Dadon J. R. & de Cidre L. L. (1992). "The reproductive cycle of the Thecosomatous pteropod Limacina retroversa in the western South Atlantic". Marine Biology 114: 439-442. doi:10.1007/BF00350035, PDF.
  5. ^ Lalli C. M. & Gilmer R. W. (1989). Pelagic Snails. The biology of holoplanktonic gastropod molluscs. Stanford University Press: Stanford, California. page 188.

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