Schwartziella catesbyana | |
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Three shells of Schwartziella catesbyana | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Family: | Zebinidae |
Genus: | Schwartziella |
Species: | S. catesbyana
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Binomial name | |
Schwartziella catesbyana (
d’Orbigny, 1842)
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Synonyms | |
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Schwartziella catesbyana, common name Catesby's risso, is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Zebinidae. [1]
This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, in the Atlantic Ocean along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and North Carolina to eastern Brazil.
The size of the shell varies between 2 mm and 7 mm.
The minimum recorded depth for this species is 0 m; maximum recorded depth is 40 m. [2]