Onoba turqueti

Onoba turqueti
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Rissoidae
Genus: Onoba
Species: O. turqueti
Binomial name
Onoba turqueti
(Lamy, 1905)
Synonyms
  • Onoba bickertoni (Hedley, 1916)
  • Rissoia fraudulenta E. A. Smith, 1907
  • Rissoia turqueti Lamy, 1905 (original combination)
  • Subonoba bickertoni Hedley, 1916

Onoba turqueti is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.[1]

Description

The maximum recorded shell length is 3.05 mm.[2]

Habitat

Minimum recorded depth is 5 m.[2] Maximum recorded depth is 167 m.[2]

References

  1. Onoba turqueti (Lamy, 1905). WoRMS (2009). Onoba turqueti (Lamy, 1905). Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=197336 on 9 August 2010.
  2. 1 2 3 Welch J. J. (2010). "The "Island Rule" and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". PLoS ONE 5(1): e8776. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008776.
  • Ponder W. F. (1983) Rissoaform gastropods from the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic. The Eatoniellidae, Rissoidae, Barleeidae, Cingulopsidae, Orbitestellidae and Rissoellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Signy Island, South Orkney Islands, with a review of the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic (excluding southern South America and the New Zealand sub-Antarctic islands) species. British Antarctic Survey, Scientific Reports 108: 1-96.


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