''Aclis crenulata'' 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 ...

, a marine

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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

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Eulimidae Eulimidae is a family of very small parasitic sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Vanikoroidea. Description These small parasitic snails live on (or in some cases in) the bodies of echinoderms such as sea cucumbers, se ...

.MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Aclis crenulata de Folin, 1879. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1499812 on 2024-02-28 This is a

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Distribution

This species occurs off the

Andaman Islands The Andaman Islands () are an archipelago, made up of 200 islands, in the northeastern Indian Ocean about southwest off the coasts of Myanmar's Ayeyarwady Region. Together with the Nicobar Islands to their south, the Andamans serve as a mari ...

, Bay of Bengal.

References

* de Folin L. & Périer L., 1879 - Les fonds de la mer. Etude internationale sur les particularités nouvelles des régions sous-marines, vol. 3, p. 209-304

External links

Folin L. de & Périer L. (1867-1887). Les fonds de la mer. Paris: Savy. 4 volumes. Dates after Rehder (1946), Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 27: 74-75. Vol. 1: 1-48 (1867), 49-112 (1868), 113-176 (1869), 177-256 (1870), 257-272 (1872), pls 1-32; Vol. 2: 1-64 (1872), 65-112 (1873), 113-124 (1874), 125-160 (1875), 161-208 (1873), 209-304 (1874), 305-360 (1875), 361-365 (1876), pls 1-11; Vol. 3: 1-96 (1876), 97-208 (1877), 209-304 (1879), 305-337 (1880), pls 1-9; Vol. 4: 1-32 (1881), 33-148 (1881-1884), 149-192 (1884-1887), 192-240 (1887), pls 1-15. Dates for plates not exactly known.
crenulata Gastropods described in 1879 {{eulimidae-stub