Lunatia levicula
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| Lunatia levicula | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Naticoidea |
| Family: | Naticidae |
| Genus: | Lunatia |
| Species: | L. levicula |
| Binomial name | |
| Lunatia levicula (A. E. Verrill, 1880) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Lunatia levicula is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails.[1]
Distribution
This species occurs in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean.
Description
The maximum recorded shell length is 32 mm.[2]
Habitat
Minimum recorded depth is 50 m.[2] Maximum recorded depth is 183 m.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bouchet, P. (2012). Lunatia levicula (A. E. Verrill, 1880). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=584840 on 2012-08-16
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Welch J. J. (2010). "The "Island Rule" and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". PLoS ONE 5(1): e8776. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008776.
- Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324.
- Torigoe K. & Inaba A. (2011) Revision on the classification of Recent Naticidae. Bulletin of the Nishinomiya Shell Museum 7: 133 + 15 pp., 4 pls.
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