Trochaclis antarctica

Trochaclis antarctica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Family: Ataphridae
Genus: Trochaclis
Species: T. antarctica
Binomial name
Trochaclis antarctica
Thiele, 1912

Trochaclis antarctica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ataphridae.[1]

Description

The length of the shell varies between 2 mm and 5 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in Antarctic waters off the South Sandwich Islands, the South Shetlands, the Antarctic Peninsula, the Ross Sea and the Weddell Sea.

References


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