Kurilabyssia squamosa

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Kurilabyssia squamosa
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Family: Pseudococculinidae
Genus: Kurilabyssia
Species:
K. squamosa
Binomial name
Kurilabyssia squamosa
Moskalev, 1976

Kurilabyssia squamosa is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudococculinidae, the false limpets. [1] [2]

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References

  1. Bouchet, P. (2012). Kurilabyssia squamosa. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=556951 on 2013-02-02
  2. Kantor Yu.I. & Sysoev A.V. (2006) Marine and brackish water Gastropoda of Russia and adjacent countries: an illustrated catalogue. Moscow: KMK Scientific Press. 372 pp. + 140 pls.