''Haloceras carinatum'' 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), ...
of
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 ...
mollusc
Mollusca is a phylum of protostome, protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant taxon, extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum ...
in the
family
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Haloceratidae
Haloceratidae is a family of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Vanikoroidea
Vanikoroidea is a superfamily of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha. The superfamily Eulimoidea is a synony ...
.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Haloceras carinatum (Jeffreys, 1883). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=419709 on 2021-01-27]
Description
Distribution
This species occurs in European waters.
References
* WAREN, A. & P. BOUCHET, 1991 ''Mollusca Gastropoda : Systematic position and revision of Haloceras, Dall 1889 (Caenogastropoda, Haloceratidae fam. nov.)''. In : A. CROSNIER & P. BOUCHET (eds), Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, vol. 7. Mém. Mus. natn. Hist. nat., sér. A, 150 : 111–161
* Gofas S. (2018). ''A non-planktotrophic haloceratid (Gastropoda) from the Meteor seamount group, central North Atlantic''. Iberus. 36(2): 149-155.
External links
JEFFREYS J.G., 1883 ''On the Mollusca procured during the "Lightning" and "Porcupine" expeditions 1868–70.'' Part VI. Proc. zool. Soc. London, 1882 : 88-149Proceedings of the United States National Museum 70(2667): 1-134">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. i>Proceedings of the United States National Museum 70(2667): 1-134Rosenberg, G.; Moretzsohn, F.; García, E. F. (2009). Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas Serge GOFAS, Ángel A. LUQUE, Joan Daniel OLIVER, José TEMPLADO & Alberto SERRA (2021) - The Mollusca of Galicia Bank (NE Atlantic Ocean); European Journal of Taxonomy 785: 1–114
Haloceratidae
Gastropods described in 1883
Taxa named by John Gwyn Jeffreys
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