Bathybembix drakei
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(unranked): | clade Vetigastropoda
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Species: | B. drakei
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Bathybembix drakei Dell, 1990 [1]
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Bathybembix drakei is a species of deep-water sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eucyclidae.[2]
Description
[edit]The shell grows to a height of 23.5 mm.
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Distribution
[edit]This marine species occurs off the Drake Passage, Antarctica at a depth of 3400 m.
References
[edit]- ^ Dell, R. K. 1990. Antarctic Mollusca, with special reference to the fauna of the Ross Sea. Royal Society of New Zealand Bulletin 27: iv + 311 pp
- ^ Bathybembix drakei Dell, 1990. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 September 2010.