''Copulabyssia tenuis '' is a

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of sea snail, a marine gastropod

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in the

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Pseudococculinidae Pseudococculinidae is a family of small sea snails or false limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Lepetelloidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).Gofas, S. (2012). Pseudococculinidae. Acces ...

.WoRMS (2020). Copulabyssia tenuis (Monterosato, 1880). Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1398526 on 2020-01-11

Description

The size of the shell varies between 0.7 mm and 2.6 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean from the

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; in the

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References

External links

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Monterosato T. A. (di) (1880). Conchiglie della zona degli abissi. Bullettino della Società Malacologica Italiana,, Pisa, 6: 50–82

effreys, J. G. (1883). On the Mollusca procured during the cruise of H. M. S. Triton, between the Hebrides and Faeroes in 1882. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1883)

Appolloni, M.; Smriglio, C.; Amati, B.; Lugliè, L.; Nofroni, I.; Tringali, L. P.; Mariottini, P.; Oliverio, M. (2018). Catalogue of the primary types of marine molluscan taxa described by Tommaso Allery Di Maria, Marquis of Monterosato, deposited in the Museo Civico di Zoologia, Roma. Zootaxa. 4477(1): 1–138
Pseudococculinidae Gastropods described in 1880 {{Pseudococculinidae-stub