Carinaria
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Carinaria anatomy | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
Superfamily: | Pterotracheoidea |
Family: | Carinariidae |
Genus: | Carinaria Lamarck, 1801 [1] |
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Carinaria is a genus of medium-sized floating sea snails, pelagic gastropod molluscs in the family Carinariidae.
Anatomy
The cylindrical and elongate body consists of three parts : a short proboscis, a well-developed trunk and tail region of variable size. The size of this tail goes from very small in Carinaria galea to very large in Carinaria cristata. The well-developed swimming fin is located in both sexes at the back of the trunk and has at its back margin a small fin sucker. The right tentacle is small or vestigial. The cuticle is thick and gelatinous.[2]
Species
The World Register of Marine Species includes the following species within the genus Carinaria:[1]
- Carinaria cithara Benson, 1835 - harp carinaria
- Carinaria cristata (Linnaeus, 1767) - Indo-Pacific
- Carinaria galea Benson, 1835 - helmet carinaria; Indo-Pacific
- Carinaria japonica Okutani, 1955 - Japan, North Pacific
- Carinaria lamarckii Blainville, 1817
- Carinaria pseudorugosa Vayssière, 1904
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bouchet, Philippe (2015). "Carinaria Lamarck, 1801". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2015-04-17.
- ↑ Lalli, Carol M.; Gilmer, Ronald W. (1989). Pelagic Snails: The Biology of Holoplanktonic Gastropod Mollusks. Stanford University Press. p. 30. ISBN 978-0-8047-1490-7.
Further reading
- Seapy, Roger R. 2008. Carinaria Lamarck 1801. Version 12 July 2008, Tree of Life Web Project: Carinaria
- "Carinaria". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
- Bonnevie, K. 1920. Heteropoda collected during the "Michael Sars" North Atlantic Deep-Sea Expedition 1910 Report on the Scientific Results of the "Michael Sars" North Atlantic Deep Sea Expedition 1910 3(2) 1-16, pls. 1-5. [True date: 28 Feb 1920.]
- Malacolog Version 4.1.0 : A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca