Lepetella sierrai

Lepetella sierrai
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Lepetelloidea
Family: Lepetellidae
Genus: Lepetella
Species: L. sierrai
Binomial name
Lepetella sierrai
Dantart & Luque, 1994 [1]

Lepetella sierrai is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Lepetellidae.[2]

This species is the host of the ectoparasitic copepod Lepetellicola brescianii Huys, Lopez Gonzalez, Roldan & Luque, 2002

Description

The shell grows to a size of 2.5 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs from the Bay of Biscay to Madeira.

References

  1. Dantart L. & Luque A. A., 1994: Cocculiniformia and Lepetidae (Gastropoda: Archaeogastropoda) from Iberian waters, Journal of Molluscan Studies 60 (3): 277-313
  2. Lepetella sierrai Dantart & Luque, 1994.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 9 April 2010.


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