Goodingia capillastericola

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Goodingia capillastericola
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Eulimidae
Genus: Goodingia
Species:
G. capillastericola
Binomial name
Goodingia capillastericola
Minichev, 1970
Synonyms
  • Mucronalia capillastericola Minichev, 1970
  • Mucronella capillastericola [sic]

Goodingia capillastericola is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eulimidae. This species, along with Goodingia varicosa belongs in the genus Goodingia and are crinoid-parasitic. [1] [2] [3]

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Description

G. capillastericola has an oblong, transparent, conical shell ending in a body whorl. It has a small operculum with a large proboscis. They have hermaphroditic reproductive systems. Due to their transparent shells, their soft flesh is visually exposed, demonstrating their characteristic white-and-brown striped patterning. [1] [3]

As veliger, they possess a well-developed head and a foot, and small velar lobes (fleshy modules extending from the velum). [1]

G. capillastericola differs from its congener, Goodingia varicosa, by having a rounder shell and a different position of its seminal vesicle in its hermaphroditic reproductive system, hence their inability to cross-reproduce. [4] [3]

Habitat

Goodingia capillastericola has been found in the Northern Red Sea (Gulf of Aqaba), [1] Japan (Amami-Oshima Island), and Papa New Guinea (Sek Island, Madang Province). [3] Specimens have been found attached to arms of the feather star Capillaster multiradiatus in coral reefs 2-2.5m deep. [1] [3] Specimens found in Japan and Papa New Guinea were found to be morphologically identical, but genetically distinct. [3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Minichev, Yu S. (1970). "A new parasitic mollusk, Mucronalia capillastericola n.sp., living on crinoids". Issledovania po evolyutsionnoy morfologii bespozvonocnykh[Research on Evolutionary Morphology of Invertebrates]: 77–113.
  2. ↑ Minichev, 1970. Warén A. (1980). Revision of the genera Thyca, Stilifer, Scalenostoma, Mucronalia and Echineulima (Mollusca, Prosobranchia, Eulimidae). Zoologica Scripta 9: 187-210. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=536143 on 2013-02-24.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Takano, Tsuyoshi; Goto, Ryutaro (February 2021). "Molecular and morphological systematics of the crinoid-parasitic snail genus Goodingia (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda: Eulimidae) with new insights into intrafamilial phylogenetic relationships" . Marine Biodiversity. 51 (1). doi:10.1007/s12526-020-01141-0. ISSN   1867-1616.
  4. ↑ Waren, Anders (April 1981). "Revision of the Genera Apicalia A. Adams and Stilapex lredale and Description of Two New Genera (Mollusca, Prosobranchia, Eulimidae)" . Zoologica Scripta. 10 (2): 133–154. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.1981.tb00491.x. ISSN   0300-3256.


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