''Aclis talaverai'' 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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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 talaverai Brunetti & Cresti, 2018. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1321483 on 2024-03-05

Distribution

This minute marine species occurs off

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References

* Brunetti M.M. & Cresti M. (2018). Aclis talaverai n. nov. per Aclis scalaris (Garcia-Talavera, 1975). Bollettino Malacologico. 54(2): 195-197

External links

Talavera, F. G. (1975). Moluscos de sedimentos de la plataforma continental de Mauritania. Boletín del Instituto Español de Oceanografía. 192: 1-14, 4 pls.
talaverai Gastropods described in 2018 {{eulimidae-stub