| Satondella brasiliensis | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Lepetellida |
| Superfamily: | Scissurelloidea |
| Family: | Scissurellidae |
| Genus: | Satondella |
| Species: | S. brasiliensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Satondella brasiliensis (Mattar, 1987) | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Satondella brasiliensis is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Scissurellidae, the little slit snails. [1] [2] [3]
Source: [4]
The shell grows to a height of 0.9-1.0mm and has a unique chimney-like foramen.
Live S. brasiliensis is somewhat yellowish, whereas the shells are seen to be off-white.
The protoconch has a spiral, smooth and hexagonal sculpture.
The operculum is circular, thin, multispiral, with a central nucleus.
It has a narrow umbilicus and numerous axial ribs.
Source: [4]
Life species inhabits the West Atlantic Ocean along Cuba and Bermuda at a depth between 40 and 50 m in Cuba, and 81–91 m in Bermuda.
Empty shells are found around the Bahamas, Florida, Gulf of Mexico, Honduras, Toboga Island, as well as Brazil, at depths between 28 and 198 m.
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