Skenea profunda

Skenea profunda
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Gastropoda
Clade:Vetigastropoda
Superfamily:Trochoidea
Family:Skeneidae
Genus:Skenea
Species: S. profunda
Binomial name
Skenea profunda
Friele, 1879
Synonyms

Cyclostrema profundum Friele, 1879

Skenea profunda is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Skeneidae.[1]

A marine nematode Endeolophos skeneae (family Chromadoridae) is epibiotically associated with Skenea profunda [2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in northern European waters off Spitzbergen.

References

  1. ↑ Skenea profunda Friele, 1879.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 21 April 2010.
  2. ↑ Endeolophos skeneae sp nov (Chromadoridae)-a free-living marine nematode epibiotically associated with deep-sea gastropod Skenea profunda (Skeneidae). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 2011;91(2 Sp. Iss.):387-394.
  • Friele H., 1879: Catalog der auf der norwegischen Nordmeer-Expedition bei Spitzbergen gefundenen Mollusken; Jahrbücher der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft 6: 264-286
  • Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213


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