Onoba aculeus

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Onoba aculeus
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Onoba aculeus shell
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Rissoidae
Genus: Onoba
Species:
O. aculeus
Binomial name
Onoba aculeus
(Gould, 1841)
Synonyms [1]
  • Alvania multilineata(Stimpson, 1851)
  • Cingula aculeusGould, 1841
  • Onoba aculea(Gould, 1841)
  • Onoba karicaGolikov, 1986
  • Rissoa arcticaLovén, 1846
  • Rissoa multilineataStimpson, 1851
  • Rissoa saxatilisMøller, 1842

Onoba aculeus, common name the pointed cingula, is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae. [1]

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Description

The maximum recorded shell length is 4.2 mm. [2]

Habitat

Minimum recorded depth is 0 m. [2] Maximum recorded depth is 115 m. [2]

Distribution

This species occurs in European waters and in the North and Northeast Atlantic Ocean.

Distribution: Greenland; Greenland: West Greenland, East Greenland; Canada; Canada: Newfoundland, Gulf of St. Lawrence, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick; USA: Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut; Eastern Atlantic: Iceland

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References

  1. 1 2 Onoba aculeus (Gould, 1841) . Gofas, S. (2009). Onoba aculeus (Gould, 1841). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2009) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141308 on 9 August 2010 .
  2. 1 2 3 Welch J. J. (2010). "The "Island Rule" and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". PLoS ONE 5(1): e8776. doi : 10.1371/journal.pone.0008776.
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