Euspira levicula

Euspira levicula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Naticoidea
Family:	Naticidae
Genus:	Euspira
Species:	E. levicula
Binomial name
	Euspira levicula; (A. E. Verrill, 1880)
Synonyms[1]
	Lunatia levicula (A. E. Verrill, 1880); Natica levicula A. E. Verrill, 1880 (basionym);

Euspira levicula is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails.[1]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean.

The maximum recorded shell length is 32 mm.[2]

Minimum recorded depth is 50 m.[2] Maximum recorded depth is 183 m.[2]

Gofas, S.; Bouchet, P.; Rosenberg, G. (2015). Euspira levicula (A. E. Verrill, 1880). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=160319 on 2015-06-21
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.

Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324.
Torigoe K. & Inaba A. (2011) Revision on the classification of Recent Naticidae. Bulletin of the Nishinomiya Shell Museum 7: 133 + 15 pp., 4 pls.

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