| Diacavolinia longirostris | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Clade: | Euopisthobranchia |
| Order: | Pteropoda |
| Family: | Cavoliniidae |
| Subfamily: | Cavoliniinae |
| Genus: | Diacavolinia |
| Species: | D. longirostris |
| Binomial name | |
| Diacavolinia longirostris (Blainville, 1821) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Diacavolinia longirostris is a species of sea butterfly. It is a pteropod. [1]
The species is a pelagic animal. It could live in deep waters, up to 1234m. [2] The species has a small shell with big round 'wings' which it uses to swim and glide through the water. Itlength attains 9 mm, its diameter 6.3 mm. [3] [4]
The species is mostly concentrated near Papua New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia in the Oceanic region, in the Bay of Bengal and near the Gulf of Mexico, near Louisiana and the Bahamas. [5]
Limacina is a genus of swimming predatory sea snails commonly known as sea butterflies in the family Limacinidae. This genus contains some of the world's most abundant gastropod species.
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