Antimargarita smithiana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Margaritidae.[1]
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
Order: | Trochida |
Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
Family: | Margaritidae |
Genus: | Antimargarita |
Species: | A. smithiana
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Binomial name | |
Antimargarita smithiana (Hedley, 1916)
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Description
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Distribution
editThis marine species occurs off East Antarctica and in the Bellinghausen Sea at depths between 30 m and 1117 m.
References
edit- ^ a b Antimargarita smithiana (Hedley, 1916). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 July 2013.
- Aldea C., Zelaya D.G. & Troncoso J.S. (2009) Two new trochids of the genus Antimargarita (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda: Trochidae) from the Bellingshausen Sea and South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Polar Biology 32:417–426
- Engl W. (2012) Shells of Antarctica. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 402 pp
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