Bathycrinicola tumidula is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Eulimidae.[2][3][4][5]
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| Bathycrinicola tumidula shell | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Eulimidae |
| Genus: | Bathycrinicola |
| Species: | B. tumidula
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| Binomial name | |
| Bathycrinicola tumidula (Thiele, 1912)
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Distribution
editThis species is distributed within Antarctica waters, these include the Weddell Sea, Ross Sea and Amundsen Sea. Bathycrinicola tumidula is also notable for inhabiting McMurdo Sound, near McMurdo Station, Ross Island here, scientists who inhabit the American station throughout the summer months can observe this species carefully.
References
edit- ^ Thiele, Joh. (1912). "Die antarktischen Schnecken und Muscheln". Zoologie V. Deutsche Südpolar-Expedition 1901–1903. Vol. 13. Berlin: Georg Reimer. p. 193. Pl. 11, Fig. 31.
- ^ Thiele, 1912. Southern Ocean Mollusc Database (SOMBASE), available online at http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/BAS_Science/programmes2000-2005/ABPPF/SOMBASE Archived 2007-01-18 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=711575 on 2013-02-21.
- ^ SCHIAPARELLI S., GHIRARDO C., BOHN J., CHIANTORE M., ALBERTELLI G., CATTANEO-VIETTI R. (2007). Antarctic associations: the parasitic relationship between the gastropod Bathycrinicola tumidula (Thiele, 1912) (Ptenoglossa: Eulimidae) and the comatulid Notocrinus virilis Mortensen, 1917 (Crinoidea: Notocrinidae) in the Ross Sea. POLAR BIOLOGY, vol. 30(12), p. 1545-1555, ISSN 0722-4060, doi:10.1007/s00300-007-0315-x
- ^ Engl W. (2012) Shells of Antarctica. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 402 pp.
- ^ Warén A. (2011). Checklist of Eulimidae. pers. com.
External links
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