Benthobrookula charleenae

Benthobrookula charleenae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Family:	incertae sedis
Genus:	Benthobrookula
Species:	B. charleenae
Binomial name
Benthobrookula charleenae Schwabe & Engl, 2008 [1]
Synonyms
Brookula charleenaeSchwabe & Engl, 2008

Benthobrookula charleenae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk unassigned in the superfamily Seguenzioidea. ^[2]

Description

The size of the shell varies between 0.8 mm and 1.4 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the South Sandwich Islands, found at a depth of 2700 m.

References

1. Schwabe & Engl (2008). Zootaxa 1866 : 187-204. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 22 April 2010.
2. Benthobrookula charleenae (Schwabe & Engl, 2008) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 22 April 2010.

• Schwabe E. & Engl W. (2008). Description of two new deep-water species of the genus Brookula Iredale, 1912 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Trochoidea), with a revision of the genus for the Subantarctic and Arctic Sector of the Atlantic Ocean. Zootaxa, 1866: 187–204
• Engl W. (2012) Shells of Antarctica. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 402 pp.