Lodderena ornata
Lodderena ornata is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Skeneidae.[1]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Genus: | Lodderena |
| Species: | L. ornata |
| Binomial name | |
| Lodderena ornata (Olsson & McGinty, 1958) | |
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Description
The size of the shell is 0.8 mm.
Distribution
This marine species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off the Cape Verde Islands, the Gulf of Guinea, off Brazil; in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. It has also been reported in the Indian Ocean.
References
- Lodderena ornata (Olsson & McGinty, 1958). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 21 April 2010.
- Olsson, A. A. and T. L. McGinty. 1958. Recent marine mollusks from the Caribbean coast of Panama with the description of some new genera and species. Bulletins of American Paleontology 39: 1–58, pls. 1–5.
- Rolán E., 2005. Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda
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