Gaillea canetae

Gaillea canetae
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Eosiphonidae
Genus:	Gaillea
Species:	G. canetae
Binomial name
	Gaillea canetae; (Clench & Aguayo, 1944)
Synonyms
	Buccinum canetae Clench & Aguayo, 1944 (original combination); Eosipho canetae (Clench & Aguayo, 1944); Manaria canetae (Clench & Aguayo, 1944); Metula canetae (Clench & Aguayo, 1944); Plicifusus jamarci Okutani, 1982;

Gaillea canetae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Eosiphonidae, the true whelks and their allies.^[1]

Description

A rare deepwater species.
Taken alive in fish traps set at 1,700 ft. depth (515 metres)
Offshore West coast BARBADOS, Lesser Antilles.

^ ^a ^b MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Gaillea canetae (Clench & Aguayo, 1944). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=744009 on 2021-06-20

Fraussen, K.; Stahlschmidt, P. (2016). The extensive Indo-Pacific deep-water radiation of Manaria E.A. Smith, 1906 (Gastropoda: Buccinidae) and related genera, with descriptions of 21 new species. in: Héros, V. et al. (Ed.) Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 29. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (1993). 208: 363-456