Colotrachelus hestica is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudococculinidae, the false limpets.[2]

Colotrachelus hestica
Shell of Colotrachelus hestica (paratype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Lepetellida
Superfamily: Lepetelloidea
Family: Caymanabyssiidae
Genus: Colotrachelus
Species:
C. hestica
Binomial name
Colotrachelus hestica
B.A. Marshall, 1986[1]

Distribution

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This marine species is endemic to New Zealand.

References

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  • Marshall, B.A. (1986 ["1985"]). Recent and Tertiary Cocculinidae and Pseudococculinidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from New Zealand and New South Wales. New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 12(4): 505-546.
  • Kano Y., Takano T., Schwabe E. & Warén A. (2016). Phylogenetic position and systematics of the wood-associate limpet genus Caymanabyssia and implications for ecological radiation into deep-sea organic substrates by lepetelloid gastropods. Marine Ecology. 37: 1116-1130
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