Anatoma flexidentata

Anatoma flexidentata
Shell of Anatoma flexidentata (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Lepetellida
Family:	Anatomidae
Genus:	Anatoma
Species:	A. flexidentata
Binomial name
Anatoma flexidentata Geiger & Sasaki, 2008 [1]

Anatoma flexidentata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Anatomidae. ^[2]

Description

The length of the shell attains 2.9 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean (off Réunion and Mozambique) to the western Pacific (New Caledonia, Fiji, Vanuatu); also off Australia (New South Wales).

References

1. Geiger & Sasaki (2008). Zoosymposia 1 : 247–164. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 11 April 2010.
2. Anatoma flexidentata Geiger & Sasaki, 2008 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 11 April 2010.

• Geiger D.L. (2012) Monograph of the little slit shells. Volume 1. Introduction, Scissurellidae. pp. 1–728. Volume 2. Anatomidae, Larocheidae, Depressizonidae, Sutilizonidae, Temnocinclidae. pp. 729–1291. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Monographs Number 7

External links

• Geiger D.L. & Sasaki T. (2008) Four new species of Anatomidae (Mollusca: Vetigastropoda) from the Indian Ocean (Reunion, Mayotte) and Australia, with notes on a novel radular type for the family. Zoosymposia 1: 247–164