Emarginula undulata

Emarginula undulata
Shell of Emarginula undulata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Lepetellida
Family:	Fissurellidae
Subfamily:	Emarginulinae
Genus:	Emarginula
Species:	E. undulata
Binomial name
Emarginula undulata Melvill & Standen, 1903
Synonyms [1]
Emarginula vadumBarnard, 1963

Emarginula undulata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Description

Dimensions: base 6.8 × 4.6 mm, height 3.8 mm.

Distribution

This marine species is widely distributed along the continental margin of the western Indian Ocean, extending from the Gulf of Oman south to eastern South Africa, at depths ranging from 50 to 400 meters, with living specimens typically found between 75 and 120 meters. It was recently recorded in the Philippines (Poppe & Tagaro 2020) and has been found on the slopes of Walters Shoal (off Madagascar) at depths of 256–490 meters. ^[4]

References

1. Bouchet, P. (2012). Emarginula undulata Melvill & Standen, 1903. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=572117 on 2012-12-31
2. Herbert D.G. & Kilburn R.N. (1986). Taxonomic studies on the Emarginulinae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Fissurellidae) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Emarginula, Emarginella, Puncturella, Fissurisepta, and Rimula. South Africa Journal of Zoology 21(1):1-27.
3. Bosch D.T., Dance S.P., Moolenbeek R.G. & Oliver P.G. (1995) Seashells of eastern Arabia. Dubai: Motivate Publishing. 296 pp.
4. Herbert, D.G. (2024). "The Vetigastropoda (Mollusca) of Walters Shoal, with descriptions of two new genera and thirty new species". European Journal of Taxonomy. 923: 4. Retrieved 2 November 2024.  This article incorporates textfrom this source, which is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

• Bosch D.T., Dance S.P., Moolenbeek R.G. & Oliver P.G. (1995). Seashells of eastern Arabia. Dubai: Motivate Publishing. pp. 1–296.
• Poppe G.T. & Tagaro S.P. (2020). "The Fissurellidae from the Philippines with the description of 26 new species". Visaya. suppl. 13: 1–131.

External links

• Melvill, J. C. & Standen, R. (1903). "Descriptions of sixty-eight new Gastropoda from the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and North Arabian Sea, dredged by Mr. F. W. Townsend, of the Indo-European Telegraph Service, 1901–1903". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 7 (12): 289–324.
• Herbert, D.G. (2015). "An annotated catalogue and bibliography of the taxonomy, synonymy and distribution of the Recent Vetigastropoda of South Africa (Mollusca)". Zootaxa. 4049 (1): 1–98.
• Herbert D.G. & Kilburn R.N. (1986). "Taxonomic studies on the Emarginulinae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Fissurellidae) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Emarginula, Emarginella, Puncturella, Fissurisepta, and Rimula". South Africa Journal of Zoology. 21 (1): 1–27.
• Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
• USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
• World Register of Marine Species