Euchelus Eucastus
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''Euchelus eucastus'' is a
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Chilodontaidae Chilodontaidae is a taxonomic family of mostly small deepwater sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Vetigastropoda (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). Taxonomy The family was previously in ...
.Rosenberg, G. (2012). ''Euchelus eucastus'' Dall, 1927. Retrieved through:
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at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=532804 on 2013-04-14


Description

The height of the shell attains 6.5 mm.


Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off
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, USA at a depth of 805 m.


References


Dall W. H. (1927). ''Small shells from dredgings off the southeast coast of the United states by the United States Fisheries Steamer "Albatross", in 1885 and 1886''. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 70(18): 1-134


External links


Encyclopedia of Life

USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection

ITIS

World Register of Marine Species
eucastus Gastropods described in 1927 {{Chilodontaidae-stub