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species

Rugulina fragilis (G.O. Sars, 1878)

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Seguenziida »  family Pendromidae »  genus Rugulina

Scientific synonyms

Tornus fragilis G. O. Sars, 1878

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Rugulina fragilis

Author: Ortega & Gofas

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Description

Distribution: Greenland, Iceland, Norway (WAR£N, 1991), Rockall Bank, Porcupine Basin (FREIWALD & BECK, 2007, HOFFMAN ET AL., 2010), Seine Seamount (BECK ET AL., 2006), Canaries
(ORTEGA & GOFAS, 2019), Azores and SASC (this study), 150-1500 m.
Remarks: The species has a yellowish shell with spiral cords and a chaotic sculpture on the upper part of the whorls.
Hoffman, L. , Gofas, S. & Freiwald, A.A., 2020. A large biodiversity of “skeneimorph” (Gastropoda Vetigastropoda) species from the South Azorean Seamount Chain, with the description of seventeen new species.
Author: Jan Delsing

Links and literature

EN Galli C.: WMSDB - Wolrdwide Mollusc Species Data Base July 10, 2013 [http://www.bagniliggia.it/WMSD/WMSDhome....] [as Rugulina fragilis (Sars, 1878)]
Data retrieved on: 22 November 2013

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