''Fusceulima jacksonensis'' 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 ...

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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. (2020). MolluscaBase. Fusceulima jacksonensis Laseron, 1955. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=536979 on 2020-11-27

Distribution

* Marine

References

* Warén, A. (1984). A generic revision of the family Eulimidae (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia). Journal of Molluscan Studies. suppl 13: 1-96

External links

World Register of Marine Species

Laseron C.F. (1955). Revision of the New South Wales eulimoid shells. The Australian Zoologist. 12(2): 83-107, 3 pls

de Souza L.S. & Pimenta A.D. (2014). Fusceulima and Halielloides (Gastropoda: Eulimidae) in the southwestern Atlantic, with descriptions of two new species of Fusceulima. Zoologia. 31(6): 621-633
Eulimidae Gastropods described in 1955 {{Eulimidae-stub