Biology
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Type of larval development: short planktonic, non-planktotrophic as usual in Vetigastropoda and Patellogastropoda
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- Backeljau, T. (1986). Lijst van de recente mariene mollusken van België [List of the recent marine molluscs of Belgium]. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 106 pp.
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- Gofas, Serge [email]
Diagnosis
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Shell up to 15 mm long, with oval contour and elevated, conical profile, apex situated in the posterior third, never overhanging the posterior margin. Sculpture of numerous low radial ribs, alternating stronger and weaker, crossed by comarginal cordlets which are attenuated on the top of the ribs. Slit narrow and deep. Colour white.
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- Backeljau, T. (1986). Lijst van de recente mariene mollusken van België [List of the recent marine molluscs of Belgium]. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 106 pp.
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- Gofas, Serge [email]
Distribution
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Eastern Atlantic, from Norway to Morocco and the Canary Is.; rare in the Western Mediterranean; from nearshore to ca. 150 m in the northern part of the range, generally deeper than 100 m in the south. Moderately common on Gorringe, Josephine, Ampère and Seine seamounts, 96-335 m
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- Backeljau, T. (1986). Lijst van de recente mariene mollusken van België [List of the recent marine molluscs of Belgium]. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 106 pp.
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- Gofas, Serge [email]
