Gaillea canetae
| Gaillea canetae | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Eosiphonidae |
| Genus: | Gaillea |
| Species: | G. canetae
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| Binomial name | |
| Gaillea canetae (Clench & Aguayo, 1944)
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Gaillea canetae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Eosiphonidae, the true whelks and their allies.[1]
Description
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Distribution
[edit]A rare deepwater species.
Taken alive in fish traps set at 1,700 ft. depth (515 metres)
Offshore West coast BARBADOS, Lesser Antilles.
References
[edit]- ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Gaillea canetae (Clench & Aguayo, 1944). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=744009 on 2021-06-20
- Fraussen, K.; Stahlschmidt, P. (2016). The extensive Indo-Pacific deep-water radiation of Manaria E.A. Smith, 1906 (Gastropoda: Buccinidae) and related genera, with descriptions of 21 new species. in: Héros, V. et al. (Ed.) Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 29. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (1993). 208: 363-456