Cerithiella metula

Cerithiella metula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; informal group Ptenoglossa
Superfamily:	Triphoroidea
Family:	Newtoniellidae
Genus:	Cerithiella
Species:	C. metula
Binomial name
	Cerithiella metula; (Lovén, 1846)

Cerithiella metula is a species of very small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Newtoniellidae. This species is known from European waters, the Gulf of Maine, the northwestern Atlantic Ocean, and the United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone. It was described by Lovén, in 1846.^[1] It is a predator, omnivore, and scavenger. Recently there are indications that this gastropod may have featured more primitive version's of the Mantis Shrimp's spring loaded claws.

Description edit

The maximum recorded shell length is 11 mm.^[2]

Habitat edit

Minimum recorded depth is 201 m.^[2] Maximum recorded depth is 2915 m.^[2]

References edit

^ Cerithiella metula at World Register of Marine Species.
^ ^a ^b ^c 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.

External links edit

Serge GOFAS, Ángel A. LUQUE, Joan Daniel OLIVER,José TEMPLADO & Alberto SERRA (2021) - The Mollusca of Galicia Bank (NE Atlantic Ocean); European Journal of Taxonomy 785: 1–114

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[1] Cerithiella metula at World Register of Marine Species.

[Welch_2010-2] 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.

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