Bathycrinicola tumidula

Bathycrinicola tumidula
Bathycrinicola tumidula shell
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
Superfamily: Eulimoidea
Family: Eulimidae
Genus: Bathycrinicola
Species: B. tumidula
Binomial name
Bathycrinicola tumidula
(Thiele, 1912)
Synonyms
  • Eulima tumidula Thiele, 1912[1]
  • Melanella tumidula (Thiele, 1912)

Bathycrinicola tumidula is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eulimidae.[2][3][4][5]

Distribution

This species is distributed within Antarctica waters, these include the Weddell Sea, Ross Sea and Amundsen Sea. Bathycrinicola tumidula is also notable for inhabiting McMurdo Sound, near McMurdo Station, Ross Island here, scientists who inhabit the American station throughout the summer months can observe this species carefully.

References

  1. ↑ Thiele, Joh. (1912). "Die antarktischen Schnecken und Muscheln". Zoologie V. Deutsche Südpolar-Expedition 1901–1903. 13. Berlin: Georg Reimer. p. 193. Pl. 11, Fig. 31.
  2. ↑ Thiele, 1912. Southern Ocean Mollusc Database (SOMBASE), available online at http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/BAS_Science/programmes2000-2005/ABPPF/SOMBASE. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=711575 on 2013-02-21.
  3. ↑ SCHIAPARELLI S., GHIRARDO C., BOHN J., CHIANTORE M., ALBERTELLI G., CATTANEO-VIETTI R. (2007). Antarctic associations: the parasitic relationship between the gastropod Bathycrinicola tumidula (Thiele, 1912) (Ptenoglossa: Eulimidae) and the comatulid Notocrinus virilis Mortensen, 1917 (Crinoidea: Notocrinidae) in the Ross Sea. POLAR BIOLOGY, vol. 30(12), p. 1545-1555, ISSN 0722-4060, doi:10.1007/s00300-007-0315-x
  4. ↑ Engl W. (2012) Shells of Antarctica. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 402 pp.
  5. ↑ Warén A. (2011). Checklist of Eulimidae. pers. com.


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