Thalassocyon wareni | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Family: | Thalassocyonidae |
Genus: | Thalassocyon |
Species: | T. wareni
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Binomial name | |
Thalassocyon wareni Riedel, 2000
[1]
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Thalassocyon wareni is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Thalassocyonidae. [2] T. wareni gets its name from the man who documented the species for the first time, Anders Warén. [3]
The length of the shell attains a small 24.4 mm. The shell has an inner 'spinous' support, and contains turns. [3]
The animal has a small foot, a pronounced anterior siphonal flap, a long proboscis and two long antennae. [3]
The animal has two large salivitory glands, and long tapered radula. [3]
Males have an open pallial gonoduct, which presents as a groove in the animal's large penis. [3]
This species occurs in the Indian Ocean Abyssal Province and off the Saint Paul Island in the French Southern and Antarctic Lands.
Thalassocyon wareni | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Family: | Thalassocyonidae |
Genus: | Thalassocyon |
Species: | T. wareni
|
Binomial name | |
Thalassocyon wareni Riedel, 2000
[1]
|
Thalassocyon wareni is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Thalassocyonidae. [2] T. wareni gets its name from the man who documented the species for the first time, Anders Warén. [3]
The length of the shell attains a small 24.4 mm. The shell has an inner 'spinous' support, and contains turns. [3]
The animal has a small foot, a pronounced anterior siphonal flap, a long proboscis and two long antennae. [3]
The animal has two large salivitory glands, and long tapered radula. [3]
Males have an open pallial gonoduct, which presents as a groove in the animal's large penis. [3]
This species occurs in the Indian Ocean Abyssal Province and off the Saint Paul Island in the French Southern and Antarctic Lands.