Bathycrinicola tumidula

Bathycrinicola tumidula
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
Superfamily: Eulimoidea
Family: Eulimidae
Genus: Bathycrinicola
Species: B. tumidula
Binomial name
Bathycrinicola tumidula
Thiele, 1912
Synonyms
  • Eulima tumidula Thiele, 1912
  • Melanella tumidula Thiele, 1912

Bathycrinicola tumidula is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eulimidae. [1][2][3][4]

Distribution

This species is distributed within Antarctica waters, these include the Weddell Sea, Ross Sea and Amundsen Sea. Bathycrinicola tumidula is also notable for inhabiting McMurdo Sound, near McMurdo Station, Ross Island here, scientists who inhabit the American station throughout the Summer months can observe this species carefully.

References

  1. Thiele, 1912. Southern Ocean Mollusc Database (SOMBASE), available online at http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/BAS_Science/programmes2000-2005/ABPPF/SOMBASE. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=711575 on 2013-02-21.
  2. SCHIAPARELLI S., GHIRARDO C., BOHN J., CHIANTORE M., ALBERTELLI G., CATTANEO-VIETTI R. (2007). Antarctic associations: the parasitic relationship between the gastropod Bathycrinicola tumidula (Thiele, 1912) (Ptenoglossa: Eulimidae) and the comatulid Notocrinus virilis Mortensen, 1917 (Crinoidea: Notocrinidae) in the Ross Sea. POLAR BIOLOGY, vol. 30(12), p. 1545-1555, ISSN: 0722-4060, doi: 10.1007/s00300-007-0315-x
  3. Engl W. (2012) Shells of Antarctica. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 402 pp.
  4. Warén A. (2011). Checklist of Eulimidae. pers. com.

External links

External identifiers for Bathycrinicola tumidula
WoRMS 711575