Haplocochlias ortizi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Skeneidae.[2]
Haplocochlias ortizi | |
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Shell of Haplocochlias ortizi (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
Order: | Trochida |
Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
Family: | Skeneidae |
Genus: | Haplocochlias |
Species: | H. ortizi
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Binomial name | |
Haplocochlias ortizi Espinosa, Ortea & Fernandez-Garces, 2004[1]
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Description
editThe height of the shell attains 3 mm.
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Distribution
editThis species occurs in the Caribbean Sea off Guadeloupe and Cuba at a depth between 49 m and 54 m.
References
edit- ^ Espinosa, Ortea & Fernandez-Garces. 2004. Avicennia 17 : 71–76. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 21 April 2010.
- ^ Haplocochlias ortizi Espinosa, Ortea & Fernandez-Garces, 2004. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 21 April 2010.
- Espinosa, J., J. Ortea and R. Fernández-Garcés. 2005. Descripción de tres nuevas especies del género Haplocochlias Carpenter, 1864 (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Avicennia 17: 71–76.