Biology:Bathycrinicola tumidula

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Short description: Species of gastropod

Bathycrinicola tumidula
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Bathycrinicola tumidula shell
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Eulimidae
Genus: Bathycrinicola
Species:
B. tumidula
Binomial name
Bathycrinicola tumidula
(Thiele, 1912)
Synonyms
  • Eulima tumidula Thiele, 1912[1]
  • Melanella tumidula (Thiele, 1912)

Bathycrinicola tumidula is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Eulimidae.[2][3][4][5]

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, Joh. (1912). "Die antarktischen Schnecken und Muscheln". Zoologie V. Deutsche Südpolar-Expedition 1901–1903. 13. Berlin: Georg Reimer. p. 193. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2139036.  Pl. 11, Fig. 31.
  2. 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.
  3. 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
  4. Engl W. (2012) Shells of Antarctica. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 402 pp.
  5. Warén A. (2011). Checklist of Eulimidae. pers. com.

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q4869172 entry