Kaiparathina coriolis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae.[1]
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| Shell of Kaiparathina coriolis (holotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Trochidae |
| Genus: | Kaiparathina |
| Species: | K. coriolis
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| Kaiparathina coriolis Marshall, 1993
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Description
editThe length of the shell attains 10.1 mm. The shell is only found in Lord Howe Rise in the Coral Sea at a level of 340 meters in the continental slope. The last time it was seen was in 1993, by Marshall B.A.,[2] and one of the few shells found are being held in the Museum d'Historie Naturelle, in Paris. It feeds off of plants.
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Distribution
editThis marine species occurs off the Northern Lord Howe Rise in the Coral Sea.
It has been sighted in the 1800s off the shore of Hawaii, and since then only in the aforementioned area of Lord Howe Rise, Australia.
References
edit- ^ Rosenberg, G. (2012). Kaiparathina coriolis Marshall, 1993. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=594173 on 2012-09-01
- ^ "Kaiparathina coriolis Marshall, 1993". Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database. Retrieved 2023-04-23.
- Marshall B.A. (1993) A review of the genus Kaiparathina Laws, 1941 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochoidea). The Veliger 36: 185-198
External links
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