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Thalassocyon wareni

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Thalassocyon wareni
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Thalassocyonidae
Genus: Thalassocyon
Species:
T. wareni
Binomial name
Thalassocyon wareni
Riedel, 2000[1]

Thalassocyon wareni is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Thalassocyonidae.[2] T. wareni gets its name from the man who documented the species for the first time, Anders Warén.[3]

Description

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The length of the shell attains a small 24.4 mm. The shell has an inner 'spinous' support, and contains turns.[3]

The animal has a small foot, a pronounced anterior siphonal flap, a long proboscis and two long antennae.[3]

The animal has two large salivitory glands, and long tapered radula.[3]

Males have an open pallial gonoduct, which presents as a groove in the animal's large penis.[3]

Distribution

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This species occurs in the Indian Ocean Abyssal Province and off the Saint Paul Island in the French Southern and Antarctic Lands.

References

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  1. ^ Riedel, F. (2000) Berliner geowissenschaftliche Abhandelungen, Ser. E. 32: 69–70. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 6 June 2010.
  2. ^ Thalassocyon wareni Riedel, 2000. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 December 2018.
  3. ^ a b c d e Reidel, F (2000). "Ursprung und Evolution der höheren Caenogastropoda". Berliner geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen. 32: 1–240.
  • Riedel F. (2000) Ursprung und Evolution der höheren Caenogastropoda. Berliner geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen, E 32: 1-240, 21 pl.
  • Verhaeghe, M. & Poppe, G.T. (2000) A Conchological Iconography 3: The family Ficidae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks