Margarites vahlii
Margarites vahlii | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Clade: | Vetigastropoda |
Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
Family: | Turbinidae |
Genus: | Margarites |
Species: | M. vahlii |
Binomial name | |
Margarites vahlii (Møller, 1842) | |
Synonyms[1] | |
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Margarites vahlii, common name the Vahl margarite, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Margaritidae.[1]
Description
The height of the shell attains 1.2 mm, its diameter 1.8 mm. The small, solid shell has a turbinate shape. It is pale flesh color, polished, smooth. It has five well rounded whorls, including a minute subglobular nucleus. The suture is very distinct, not appressed. The base of the shell is rounded with a narrow deep perforate umbilicus. The simple aperture is subcircular. The inner lip is hardly thickened. The body is covered with a thin coat of enamel.[2]
Distribution
This marine species occurs off Greenland, Canada, in the Arctic Ocean north of Bering Strait, at depths between 4 m and 931 m.
References
- Möller, H. P. C. 1842. Index molluscorum Groenlandiae. Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift 4: 76-97.
- Dall, W. H. 1921. Nomenclatorial notes. Nautilus 35: 49-50.
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