Rugulina

Rugulina
View of a shell of Rugulina verrilli
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Family: Pendromidae
Genus: Rugulina
Palazzi, 1988 [1]
Type species
Daronia monterosatoi van Aartsen & Bogi, 1986

Rugulina is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pendromidae.[2]

Distribution

These species has a bipolar distribution. They occur in the cold waters of the Western Atlantic and two species off Antarctica.[3]

Species

Species within the genus Rugulina include:

References

  1. Palazzi S. (1988). Su Adeorbis exquisitus Jeffreys e specie affini. Notiziario del C.I.S.MA. 11: 1-14
  2. Rugulina Palazzi, 1988.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 31 December 2012.
  3. J. A. Crame, Bipolar Molluscs and Their Evolutionary Implications, Journal of Biogeography, Vol. 20, No. 2, Mar., 1993
  4. Rugulina fragilis (Sars, 1878).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 12 April 2010.
  5. Rugulina monterosatoi (van Aartsen & Bogi, 1986).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 12 April 2010.


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