Basilissopsis watsoni
| Basilissopsis watsoni | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Family: | Seguenziidae |
| Genus: | Basilissopsis |
| Species: | B. watsoni
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| Binomial name | |
| Basilissopsis watsoni Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1897
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Basilissopsis watsoni is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Seguenziidae.[1]
Description[edit]
The height of the nacreous shell attains 2 mm. The shell has labral sinuses.[2]
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Distribution[edit]
This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off the Azores.
References[edit]
- ^ Basilissopsis watsoni Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1897. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 18 April 2010.
- ^ James F. Quinn Jr., (1991), Systematic Position of Basilissopsis and Guttula, and a Discussion of the Phylogeny of the Seguenzioidea (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia), Bulletin of Marine Science, Volume 49, Numbers 1-2, September 1991 , pp. 575–598(24)[permanent dead link]
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