Ascobulla fragilis

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Ascobulla fragilis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Family: Volvatellidae
Genus: Ascobulla
Species:
A. fragilis
Binomial name
Ascobulla fragilis
(Jeffreys, 1856) [1]
Synonyms
  • Cylichna fragilis Jeffreys, 1856 [1]
  • Cylindrobulla fragilis [2]

Ascobulla fragilis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod sacoglossan mollusk in the family Volvatellidae.

Contents

The complete nucleotide sequence of the mitochondrial genome of Ascobulla fragilis has been available since 2008. [3]

Gavagnin et al. (1994) [2] placed this species accidentally and erroneously in a different genus.

Distribution

The type locality is La Spezia, Italy. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Jeffreys J. G. (1856). "On the marine Testacea of the Piedmontese coast". Annals and Magazine of Natural History (2)17: 155-188. p. 188, pl. 2, fig. 16-17.
  2. 1 2 Gavagnin M., Marin A., Castelluccio F., Villani G. & Cimino G. (1994) "Defensive relationships between Caulerpa prolifera and its shelled sacoglossan predators". Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 175(2): 197-210. doi:10.1016/0022-0981(94)90026-4.
  3. ↑ Grande C., Templado J. & Zardoya R. (2008). "Evolution of gastropod mitochondrial genome arrangements". BMC Evolutionary Biology 8: 61. doi : 10.1186/1471-2148-8-61
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