Mioawateria vivens
| Mioawateria vivens | |
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| Shell of Mioawateria vivens (holotype in MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Raphitomidae |
| Genus: | Mioawateria |
| Species: | M. vivens
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| Binomial name | |
| Mioawateria vivens Morassi & Bonfitto, 2013
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Mioawateria vivens is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.[1]
Description
[edit]The length of the shell attains 12 mm.[1] Compared to the rest of the genus, M. vivens has smaller dimensions (up to 6.4 mm vs. 8.2–9.9 mm in length), strongly shouldered whorls well above mid-whorl and absence of somewhat “crisp” axials on the sutural ramp.[2]
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Distribution
[edit]This marine species occurs in the Gulf of Aden.
Etymology
[edit]Vivens is Latin for "living", alluding to the fact that the new species is morphologically so close to the Miocene-Pliocene Mioawateria personata Powell, 1942 that observers speculate that it actually represents a living offshoot of the New Zealand species.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Mioawateria vivens Morassi & Bonfitto, 2013. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=722468 on 2019-07-28
- ^ a b Morassi, Mauro; Bonfitto, Antonio (8 March 2013). "Three new bathyal raphitomine gastropods (Mollusca: Conoidea) from the Indo-Pacific region". Zootaxa. 3620 (4): 579–588. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3620.4.7. ISSN 1175-5334.
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