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Amalda hilgendorfi

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Amalda hilgendorfi
Shell of Amalda hilgendorfi (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Ancillariidae
Genus: Amalda
Species:
A. hilgendorfi
Binomial name
Amalda hilgendorfi
(Martens, 1897)

Amalda hilgendorfi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Ancillariidae, the olives.[1]

Subspecies
  • Amalda hilgendorfi herlaari Van Pel, 1989
  • Amalda hilgendorfi hilgendorfi (Martens, 1897)
  • Amalda hilgendorfi richeri Kilburn & Bouchet, 1988
  • Amalda hilgendorfi vezzaroi Cossignani, 2015

Description

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This species attains a size of 28 mm.

Distribution

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Deep water: 400 metres. Pacific Ocean: New Caledonia.

References

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  • Tsuchida E. (2017). Family Olivellidae. pp. 995–997, in: T. Okutani (ed.), Marine Mollusks in Japan, ed. 2. 2 vols. Tokai University Press. 1375 pp.

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