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Anatoma rapaensis

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Anatoma rapaensis
Shell of Anatoma rapaensis (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Lepetellida
Family: Anatomidae
Genus: Anatoma
Species:
A. rapaensis
Binomial name
Anatoma rapaensis
Geiger, 2008[1]

Anatoma rapaensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Anatomidae.[2]

Description

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Distribution

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This marine species occurs off the Marquesas Islands and Austral Islands.

References

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  • Geiger D.L. (2008). New species of scissurellids from the Austral Islands, French Polynesia, and the Indo-Malayan Archipelago (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda: Scissurellidae, Anatomidae, Larocheidae). The Nautilus 122(4): 185-200
  • Geiger D.L. (2012) Monograph of the little slit shells. Volume 1. Introduction, Scissurellidae. pp. 1-728. Volume 2. Anatomidae, Larocheidae, Depressizonidae, Sutilizonidae, Temnocinclidae. pp. 729–1291. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Monographs Number 7