Iredalea pygmaea
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Horaiclavidae |
| Genus: | Haedropleura |
| Species: | H. pygmaea
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| Haedropleura pygmaea (Dunker, 1860)
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Haedropleura pygmaea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Horaiclavidae.
It was previously included within the family Turridae.[1]
Description
The length of the shell attains 5 mm.
The light-brown shell is longitudinally plicate. The plicae are evanescent towards the base of the body whorl.[2]
Distribution
This marine species occurs off Mauritius, Taiwan, Japan and Fiji.
References
- ^ a b Haedropleura pygmaea (Dunker, 1860). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 April 2010.
- ^ G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences (described as Mangilia pygmaea)
- Liu J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
External links
- "Haedropleura pygmaea". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
- Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.
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