Cavolinia tridentata

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Cavolinia tridentata
Cavolinia tridentata.jpg
Cavolinia tridentata
Cavolinia tridentata australis.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Pteropoda
Family: Cavoliniidae
Genus: Cavolinia
Species:
C. tridentata
Binomial name
Cavolinia tridentata
(Forskål, 1775)[1]
Synonyms
  • Anomia tridentata Forskål, 1775 (basionym)
  • Cavolinia natans Abildgaard, 1791
  • Cleodora trifilis Troschel, 1854

Cavolinia tridentata is a species of sea butterflies, floating and swimming sea snails or sea slugs, pelagic marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cavoliniidae.[2]

Formae[]

  • Cavolinia tridentata f. affinis (d'Orbigny, 1836)
  • Cavolinia tridentata f. kraussi Tesch, 1913
  • Cavolinia tridentata f. tridentata (Forskål, 1775)

Description[]

The maximum recorded shell length is 20 mm.[3]

Distribution[]

This marine species has a wide distribution: European waters, the Mediterranean Sea, the Atlantic Ocean (Azores, Cape Verde), the Northwest Atlantic (Gulf of Maine), Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, the Lesser Antilles, Indian Ocean (Mascarene Basin), the Indo-Pacific and off New Zealand.

Habitat[]

Minimum recorded depth is 0 m.[3] Maximum recorded depth is 4791 m.[3]

Notes[]

Cavolinia tridentata (Forsskål, 1775), museum specimens
  1. ^ Niebuhr C. (ed.) (1775). Descriptiones animalium avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, vermium quae in itinere orientali observavit Petrus Forskål, prof. Haun., post mortem auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr Hauniae [Copengagen], Möller, 1-164, 1 map.
  2. ^ Cavolinia tridentata (Forsskål in Niebuhr, 1775). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 January 2019.
  3. ^ a b c Welch, John J. (2010). "The "Island Rule" and deep-sea gastropods: re-examining the evidence". PLoS ONE. 5 (1): e8776. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008776. PMID 20098740.

References[]

  • Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice
  • Rosenberg, G. 1992. Encyclopedia of Seashells. Dorset: New York. 224 pp. page(s): 122
  • Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
  • Rolán E., 2005. Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda
  • Willan, R. (2009). Opisthobranchia (Mollusca). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp
  • 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.
  • Janssen A.W. (2012) Late Quaternary to Recent holoplanktonic Mollusca (Gastropoda) from bottom samples of the eastern Mediterranean Sea: systematics, morphology. Bollettino Malacologico 48 (suppl. 9): 1-105.

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