Pseudotorellia fragilis

Pseudotorellia fragilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Velutinoidea
Family: Velutinidae
Genus: Pseudotorellia
Species: P. fragilis
Binomial name
Pseudotorellia fragilis
Warén, 1989

Pseudotorellia fragilis is a species of small sea snail with a transparent, more or less internal shell, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Velutinidae. Because the shell is mostly internal, the snail resembles a sea slug in general appearance.[1]

References

  1. Pseudotorellia fragilis Warén, 1989. Gofas, S. (2009). Pseudotorellia fragilis Warén, 1989. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141900 on 14 August 2010.


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