Tentaoculus eritmetus

Tentaoculus eritmetus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Lepetelloidea
Family: Pseudococculinidae
Genus: Tentaoculus
Species: T. eritmetus
Binomial name
Tentaoculus eritmetus
(A. E. Verrill, 1884) [1]
Synonyms

Puncturella (Fissurisepta) eritmeta A. E. Verrill, 1884 (original description)

Tentaoculus eritmetus is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudococculinidae, the false limpets.[2]

Distribution

This species was found in the Atlantic Ocean off New England, USA, at a depth of 2650 m.

References

  1. Verrill, A. E. 1884. Second catalogue of Mollusca recently added to the fauna of the New England coast and the adjacent parts of the Atlantic, consisting mostly of deep-sea species, with notes on others previously recorded. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 6: 139-294, pls. 28-32
  2. Rosenberg, G. (2012). Tentaoculus eritmetus (A. E. Verrill, 1884). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=533483 on 2013-02-02

External links

External identifiers for Tentaoculus eritmetus
Encyclopedia of Life 19660899
WoRMS 533483


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Saturday, February 16, 2013. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.