Amalda josecarlosi

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Amalda josecarlosi
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Shell of Amalda josecarlosi (specimen at the Natural History Museum, Rotterdam)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Ancillariidae
Genus: Amalda
Species:
A. josecarlosi
Binomial name
Amalda josecarlosi
Pastorino, 2003 [1]

Amalda josecarlosi is a recently discovered species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ancillariidae. [2] [3]

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Description

The length can be up to 22 mm in length. A new species of Ancillariinae (Gastropoda: Olividae) from the southwestern Atlantic Ocean. [4] It has an eliptic-ovate shape with five smooth whorls that are flat. The radicula is rachiglossate with three cusps on its rachidian teeth.

Distribution

This species lives at depths around 60 to 80 metres, off the East coast of Brazil.

References

  1. ↑ Pastorino. 2003. Nautilus 117 (1): 15–22. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 28 April 2010.
  2. ↑ Amalda josecarlosi Pastorino, 2003 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 28 April 2010.
  3. ↑ "MolluscaBase - Amalda josecarlosi Pastorino, 2003". www.molluscabase.org. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
  4. ↑ Pastorino, Guido; Pastorino, Guido (2003). "A new species of Ancillariinae (Gastropoda: Olividae) from the southwestern Atlantic Ocean". The Nautilus. 117 (1): 15––22.


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