''Mitromorpha maculata'' is a species of

sea snail Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...

, a marine

gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...

mollusk in the family

Mitromorphidae Mitromorphidae is a monophyletic family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.Bouchet, P. (2011). Mitromorphidae Casey, 1904. In: MolluscaBase (2018). Accessed through: World Register of Marin ...

Description

Distribution

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off the Nazka Ridge and Sala y Gomez Ridge.

References

* Sysoev, A. V. "Gastropods of the fam. Turridae (Gastropoda: Toxoglossa) from the underwater Sala y Gomez Ridge." Transactions of the PP Shirshov Institute of Oceanology rudy Instituta Okeanologii124 (1990): 245–260.

External links

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Parin, N. V., A. N. Mironov, and K. N. Nesis. "Biology of the Nazca and Sala y Gomez submarine ridges, an outpost of the Indo-West Pacific fauna in the eastern Pacific Ocean: composition and distribution of the fauna, its communities and history." Advances in Marine Biology. Vol. 32. Academic Press, 1997. 145-242.

Census of Marine Life (2012). SYNDEEP: Towards a first global synthesis of biodiversity, biogeography and ecosystem function in the deep sea. Unpublished data (datasetID: 59)
maculata Gastropods described in 1990 {{mitromorpha-stub