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Brookula charleenae

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Brookula charleenae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Family: incertae sedis
Genus: Brookula
Species:
B. charleenae
Binomial name
Brookula charleenae
Schwabe & Engl, 2008[1]

Brookula charleenae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk unassigned in the superfamily Seguenzioidea.[2]

Description

The size of the shell varies between 0.8 mm and 1.4 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the South Sandwich Islands, found at a depth of 2700 m.

References

  • Schwabe E. & Engl W. (2008). Description of two new deep-water species of the genus Brookula Iredale, 1912 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Trochoidea), with a revision of the genus for the Subantarctic and Arctic Sector of the Atlantic Ocean. Zootaxa, 1866: 187–204
  • Engl W. (2012) Shells of Antarctica. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 402 pp.