Seguenzia elegans

Seguenzia elegans
	Shell of Seguenzia elegans (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Family:	Seguenziidae
Genus:	Seguenzia
Species:	S. elegans
Binomial name
	Seguenzia elegans; Jeffreys, 1885

Seguenzia elegans is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Seguenziidae.^[2]

Description

The size of the shell varies between 3 mm and 4.3 mm. The base is perforated or umbilicated. The fissure of the outer lip is close to the suture. The columella is produced below. The aperture is broadly truncately sinuous on the base.^[3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off the Bay of Biscay, Madeira, Bermuda; also off Brazil and Argentine.

References

↑ Jeffreys, J. G. 1876. Preliminary report of the biological results of a cruise in the H.M.S. 'Valorous' to Davis Strait in 1875. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 25: 177–230, pls. 2–4
↑ Seguenzia elegans Jeffreys, 1885. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 18 April 2010.
↑ Tryon (1887), Manual of Conchology IX – Solariidae (by William B. Marshall), Ianthinidae, Trichotropidae, Scalariidae, Cerithiidae, Rissoidae, Littorinidae

Jensen, R. H. (1997). A Checklist and Bibliography of the Marine Molluscs of Bermuda. Unp., 547 pp
Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
Sysoev A.V. (2014). Deep-sea fauna of European seas: An annotated species check-list of benthic invertebrates living deeper than 2000 m in the seas bordering Europe. Gastropoda. Invertebrate Zoology. Vol.11. No.1: 134–155

External links

[1] Jeffreys, J. G. 1876. Preliminary report of the biological results of a cruise in the H.M.S. 'Valorous' to Davis Strait in 1875. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 25: 177–230, pls. 2–4

[WoRMS-2] Seguenzia elegans Jeffreys, 1885. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 18 April 2010.

[3] Tryon (1887), Manual of Conchology IX – Solariidae (by William B. Marshall), Ianthinidae, Trichotropidae, Scalariidae, Cerithiidae, Rissoidae, Littorinidae

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Seguenzia elegans

Shell of Seguenzia elegans (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Family:	Seguenziidae
Genus:	Seguenzia
Species:	S. elegans
Binomial name
*Seguenzia elegans* Jeffreys, 1885 ^[1]