Biology:Scaphander otagoensis

Short description: Species of gastropod

Scaphander otagoensis
Shell of Scaphander otagoensis (paratype at the Museum of New Zealand)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Heterobranchia
Family:	Scaphandridae
Genus:	Scaphander
Species:	S. otagoensis
Binomial name
Scaphander otagoensis Dell, 1956

Scaphander otagoensis is a species of sea snail, a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Scaphandridae, the canoe bubbles.

Description

The length of the shell attains 39 mm, its diameter 17 mm.

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to New Zealand and occurs off North Island, South Island, and the Chatham Islands, between 360 m and 650 meters.

References

• Dell, R.K. (1956). "The archibenthal Mollusca of New Zealand". Dominion Museum Bulletin 18: 143. 
• Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
• Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press. 

External links

• Siegwald, J. & Malaquias, M. A. E. (2024). "Bringing light into deep-sea biodiversity: a systematic revision and molecular phylogeny of the genus Scaphander Montfort, 1810 (Gastropoda: Cephalaspidea), with a focus on the Indo-Pacific". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad201. 
• Spencer H.G., Willan R.C., Marshall B.A. & Murray T.J. (2011). Checklist of the Recent Mollusca Recorded from the New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone. http://www.molluscs.otago.ac.nz. 
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