Benthonella tenella

Benthonella tenella
	hell of Benthonella tenella (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Rissooidea
Family:	Rissoidae
Genus:	Benthonella
Species:	B. tenella
Binomial name
	Benthonella tenella; (Jeffreys, 1869)
Synonyms[1]
	Assiminopsis abyssorum Locard, 1897; Benthonella fischeri Dall, 1889; Benthonella gaza Dall, 1889; Benthonella jeffreysi (Dautzenberg, 1889); Benthonella kullenbergi Odhner, 1960; Cithna jeffreysi (Dautzenberg, 1889); Cithna tenella (Jeffreys, 1869); Cithna tenella var. costulata Jeffreys, 1883; Lacuna abyssorum Locard, 1896; Lacuna tenella Jeffreys, 1869; Putilla abyssicola F. Nordsieck, 1972; Rissoa amblia var. inornata Dautzenberg, 1927;

Benthonella tenella is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.[1]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Southeast Brazil.

The maximum recorded shell length is 9 mm.[2]

Minimum recorded depth is 10 m.[2] Maximum recorded depth is 5500 m.[2]

Benthonella tenella (Jeffreys, 1869). Gofas, S. (2009). Benthonella tenella (Jeffreys, 1869). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2009) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141261 on 9 August 2010 .
Welch J. J. (2010). "The "Island Rule" and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". PLoS ONE 5(1): e8776. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008776.

Lozouet, P., 2014 Occurrence of Benthonella Dall 1889 in the Cenozoic (Paleogene) of France: a present-day abyssal and bathyal mollusc (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda: Rissoidae). Archiv für Molluskenkunde, 143(1): 21-32, 8 figures.

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