Haedropleura pygmaea

Haedropleura pygmaea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Horaiclavidae.

Haedropleura pygmaea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Horaiclavidae
Genus: Haedropleura
Species:
H. pygmaea
Binomial name
Haedropleura pygmaea
(Dunker, 1860)
Synonyms[1]
  • Haedropleura fukuchiana Yokoyama, 1922
  • Mangilia pygmaea Dunker, 1860
  • Mangilia victor G.B. Sowerby III, 1894

It was previously included within the family Turridae.[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 5 mm.

The light-brown shell is longitudinally plicate. The plicae are evanescent towards the base of the body whorl.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Mauritius, Taiwan, Japan and Fiji.

References
  1. Haedropleura pygmaea (Dunker, 1860). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 April 2010.
  2. G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences (described as Mangilia pygmaea)
  • Liu J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
  • "Haedropleura pygmaea". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  • Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.


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