Basilissopsis watsoni
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| (unranked): | clade Vetigastropoda
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| Species: | B. watsoni
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| Basilissopsis watsoni Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1897
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Basilissopsis watsoni is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Seguenziidae.[1]
Description[]
The height of the nacreous shell attains 2 mm. The shell has labral sinuses.[2]
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Distribution[]
This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off the Azores.
References[]
- ^ Basilissopsis watsoni Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1897. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 18 April 2010.
- ^ James F. Quinn Jr., (1991), Systematic Position of Basilissopsis and Guttula, and a Discussion of the Phylogeny of the Seguenzioidea (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia), Bulletin of Marine Science, Volume 49, Numbers 1-2, September 1991 , pp. 575–598(24)[permanent dead link]
Categories:
- Basilissopsis
- Gastropods described in 1897
- Seguenziidae stubs