- Oxynoe antillarum
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Oxynoe antillarum Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda (unranked): clade Heterobranchia
Informal group Opisthobranchia
clade Sacoglossa
clade OxynoaceaSuperfamily: Oxynooidea Family: Oxynoidae Genus: Oxynoe Species: O. antillarum Binomial name Oxynoe antillarum
Mörch, 1863[1]Oxynoe antillarum is a species of small sea snail or sea slug, a bubble snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Oxynoidae.
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Distribution
The type locality for this species is Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.[2]
Description
This species has a characteristic mottled white pattern and is covered with translucent white spots. There is a mottled white band that extends along the sides of the head, around the edge of the parapodia, and also along the edge of the foot.[3]
The body is green and oval. The tail is very long, narrow, with a wide longitudinal white dorsal band. The body is closely dotted with green. Tentacles and sides of the head are white, with rather remote green dots arranged in series. Epipodial lobes are with acute, conic, close warts, its edge white with irregular green dots. Sole of the foot yellowish, narrow, the margin with a row of regular close green dots.[4]
The shell is involute, ovate, hyaline-white, swollen above, very slightly contracted immediately below the vertex, shining, with some irregular wrinkles of growth. The spire is concealed. The suture a deep lunate incision. The aperture is very large, broadly ovate below, narrow above. The outer lip is sinuous, produced forward above.[4]
The height of the shell is 6-6.25 mm. The width of the shell is 4.5 mm.[4]
Life habits
References
This article incorporates oublic domain text from the reference.[4]
- ^ Mörch O. A. L. (1863). "Revision des especes du genre Oxynoe Rafinesque, et Lobiger Krohn". Journal de Conchyliologie 11: 43-48. Oxynoe antillarum is on the page 46.
- ^ Jensen K. R. (November 2007). "Biogeography of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia)". Bonner zoologische Beiträge 55(2006)(3-4): 255–281.
- ^ http://slugsite.us/bow/nudwk338.htm
- ^ a b c d Pilsbry H. A. (1895-1896). Manual of Conchology. Volume 16. Philinidae, Gastropteridae, Aglajidae, Aplysiidae, Oxynoeidae, Runcinidae, Umbraculidae, Pleurobranchidae. page 164, plate 53, figure 90.
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