Colotrachelus hestica explained

Colotrachelus hestica is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudococculinidae, the false limpets.^[1]

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to New Zealand.

References

• Marshall, B.A. (1986 ["1985"]). Recent and Tertiary Cocculinidae and Pseudococculinidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from New Zealand and New South Wales. New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 12(4): 505-546.
• Kano Y., Takano T., Schwabe E. & Warén A. (2016). Phylogenetic position and systematics of the wood-associate limpet genus Caymanabyssia and implications for ecological radiation into deep-sea organic substrates by lepetelloid gastropods. Marine Ecology. 37: 1116-1130

External links

• USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
• World Register of Marine Species

Notes and References

1. Bouchet, P. (2012). Colotrachelus hestica B.A. Marshall, 1986. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=579391 on 2013-02-02