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Pseudonebularia dovpeledi

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Pseudonebularia dovpeledi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Mitridae
Genus: Pseudonebularia
Species:
P. dovpeledi
Binomial name
Pseudonebularia dovpeledi
(Turner, 1997)[1]
Synonyms
  • Mitra dovpeledi Turner, 1997

Pseudonebularia dovpeledi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[2]

Description

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Pseudonebularia dovpeledi has the following physical characteristics: it is a sea snail. The shell has a well-developed siphonal canal. The siphon is an elongated and trunk like extensible tube formed from a fold in the mantle, and is used to suck water into the mantle cavity. There is a bipectinate osphradium located at base of siphon and branches off from a central axis. There is an olfactory organ located at the base of the siphon. There is a heart with a single auricle, a single pair a gill leaflets on one side of the central axis and 1 kidney.[3]

Distribution

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References

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  1. ^ Turner H. 1997. Argonauta X(1-6): 3-31. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 04/24/10.
  2. ^ Pseudonebularia dovpeledi (Turner, 1997). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 December 2018.
  3. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2015-01-17.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)