Brookula charleenae
| Brookula charleenae | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Family: | incertae sedis |
| Genus: | Brookula |
| Species: | B. charleenae
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| Binomial name | |
| Brookula charleenae Schwabe & Engl, 2008[1]
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Brookula charleenae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk unassigned in the superfamily Seguenzioidea.[2]
Description
[edit]The size of the shell varies between 0.8 mm and 1.4 mm.
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Distribution
[edit]This marine species occurs off the South Sandwich Islands, found at a depth of 2700 m.
References
[edit]- ^ Schwabe & Engl (2008). Zootaxa 1866 : 187-204. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 22 April 2010.
- ^ Brookula charleenae Schwabe & Engl, 2008. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 22 April 2010.
- Schwabe E. & Engl W. (2008). Description of two new deep-water species of the genus Brookula Iredale, 1912 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Trochoidea), with a revision of the genus for the Subantarctic and Arctic Sector of the Atlantic Ocean. Zootaxa, 1866: 187–204
- Engl W. (2012) Shells of Antarctica. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 402 pp.