''Solariella carvalhoi'' is a

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of sea snail, a marine gastropod

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in the

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Solariellidae Solariellidae is a family of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Trochoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).Gofas, S. (2011). Solariellidae. Accessed through: World Register ...

Description

The maximum recorded

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length is 7 mm.Welch J. J. (2010). "The "Island Rule" and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". '' PLoS ONE'' 5(1): e8776. .

Distribution

This species occurs in the

Caribbean Sea The Caribbean Sea ( es, Mar Caribe; french: Mer des Caraïbes; ht, Lanmè Karayib; jam, Kiaribiyan Sii; nl, Caraïbische Zee; pap, Laman Karibe) is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere. It is bounded by Mexico ...

and the

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; in the Atlantic Ocean off

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

Habitat

Minimum recorded depth is 0 m. Maximum recorded depth is 66 m.

References

* Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. García. 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. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas * Lopes, H. de Souza and P. de sá Cardoso. 1958. ''Sôbre um novo gastrópodo Brasileiro do gênero "Solariella" Wood, 1842 (Trochidae).'' Revista Brasileira de Biologia 18: 59–64.

External links

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Quinn, Jr., J. F. (1992). New species of Solariella (Gastropoda: Trochidae) from the western Atlantic Ocean. Nautilus. 106(2): 50-54.

Cavallari R.C., Salvador R.B. & Simone L.R.L. (2016). Solariella quadricincta Quinn, 1992 and S. staminea Quinn, 1992 are synonyms of S. carvalhoi Lopes & Cardoso, 1958 from the SW Atlantic (Gastropoda: Solariellidae). Zootaxa. 4109(1): 96-100

Cavallari D.C., Salvador R.B., Dornellas A.P.S. & Simone L.R.L. (2019). Calliostomatidae, Colloniidae, Margaritidae, and Solariellidae (Gastropoda: Trochoidea) collected by the Marion Dufresne (MD55) expedition in southeastern Brazil, with description of a new species of Calliostoma. Zootaxa. 4609(3): 401-428
carvalhoi Gastropods described in 1958 {{Solariellidae-stub