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Oxynoe benchijigua

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Oxynoe benchijigua
Scientific classification
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clade Heterobranchia

Informal group Opisthobranchia
clade Sacoglossa

clade Oxynoacea
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O. benchijigua
Binomial name
Oxynoe benchijigua
Ortea, Moro & Espinosa, 1999[1]

Oxynoe benchijigua is a species of small sea snail or sea slug, a bubble snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Oxynoidae.

The specific name "benchijigua" means ???, compare with Benchijigua Express.

Distribution

It is endemic to Canary Islands. It is known only from island La Gomera.

The type locality for this species is "Playa del Barranco de Avalos", La Gomera, Canary Islands.[2]

Description

Life habits

References

  1. ^ Template:Es icon Ortea J., Moro L. & Espinosa J. (1999). "Dos moluscos opistobranquios nuevos de las Islas Canarias". Avicennia 10-11: 151-156.
  2. ^ Jensen K. R. (November 2007). "Biogeography of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia)" Archived 2013-10-05 at the Wayback Machine. Bonner zoologische Beiträge 55(2006)(3-4): 255–281.

Further reading