Skenea profunda

Skenea profunda
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Skeneidae
Genus: Skenea
Species: S. profunda
Binomial name
Skenea profunda
Friele, 1879
Synonyms

Cyclostrema profundum Friele, 1879

Skenea profunda is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Skeneidae.[1]

A marine nematode Endeolophos skeneae (family Chromadoridae) is epibiotically associated with Skenea profunda [2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in northern European waters off Spitzbergen.

References

  1. Skenea profunda Friele, 1879.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 21 April 2010.
  2. Endeolophos skeneae sp nov (Chromadoridae)-a free-living marine nematode epibiotically associated with deep-sea gastropod Skenea profunda (Skeneidae). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 2011;91(2 Sp. Iss.):387-394.


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