''Eulitoma arcus'' is a
species
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of
sea snail, a
marine gastropod mollusk
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in the
family
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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 cucumber ...
.
[Bouchet & Warén, 1986. BIOCEAN, available online at http://www.ifremer.fr/biocean/. Accessed through: ]World Register of Marine Species
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Content
The content of the registry is edited and maintained by scientific speciali ...
at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=183147 on 2013-02-14.[Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/]
Description
The length of the shell ranges typically from 4 mm to 7 mm in size. Shells belonging to this species have been obtained at depths of about 750 m below sea level.
Distribution
This species occurs in the following locations:
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Europe
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an waters (ERMS scope)
*
United Kingdom
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Exclusive Economic Zone
References
External links
To World Register of Marine Species
Eulimidae
Gastropods described in 1986
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