''Asterolamia perknasteri'' is a

species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...

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

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

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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 ...

. The species is one of three known species within the genus ''

Asterophila ''Asterophila'' is a genus of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Eulimidae.Randall & Heath, 1912. Warén A. & Lewis L.M. (1994) Two new species of eulimid gastropods endoparasitic in asteroids. The Veliger 37(4):325 ...

''; the other congeneric species are ''

Asterophila japonica ''Asterophila japonica'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eulimidae. The species is one of three known species within the genus ''Asterophila'', the other congeneric species being '' Asterophila perknasteri'' ...

'' and ''

Asterophila rathbunasteri ''Asterophila rathbunasteri'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eulimidae. The species is one of three known species within the genus ''Asterophila''; the other congeneric species are ''Asterophila japonica'' a ...

''.Warén, in Warén & Lewis, 1994. Warén A. & Lewis L.M. (1994) Two new species of eulimid gastropods endoparasitic in asteroids. The Veliger 37(4):325-335. Accessed through:

World Register of Marine Species The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) is a taxonomic database that aims to provide an authoritative and comprehensive catalogue and list of names of marine organisms. Content The content of the registry is edited and maintained by scien ...

at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=197052 on 2013-02-11.Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/

Distribution

This marine species is mainly distributed near the

Antarctic Circle The Antarctic Circle is the most southerly of the five major circles of latitude that mark maps of Earth. The region south of this circle is known as the Antarctic, and the zone immediately to the north is called the Southern Temperate Zone. So ...

and can be found within the

Scotia Sea The Scotia Sea is a sea located at the northern edge of the Southern Ocean at its boundary with the South Atlantic Ocean. It is bounded on the west by the Drake Passage and on the north, east, and south by the Scotia Arc, an undersea ridge and is ...

References

External links

To World Register of Marine Species
Eulimidae Gastropods described in 1994 {{Eulimidae-stub