''Absonus'' is a

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sea snail Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...

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, a marine

gastropod Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...

mollusk Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...

in the family Orbitestellidae . MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Absonus Rubio & Rolán, 2021. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1513927 on 2023-12-11

Species

* '' Absonus primus'' Rubio & Rolán, 2021

References

* Rubio, F. & Rolán, E. (2021). A new genus and 10 new species of the family Orbitestellidae Iredale, 1917 (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) from the tropical lndo-Pacific. Gloria Maris. 60(1): 7-29.

External links

* {{Commons category Absonus