''Benthobia atafona'' is a

species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...

sea snail Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...

, a marine

gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...

mollusc Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is esti ...

in the

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Benthobiidae The Benthobiidae is a taxonomic family of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Olivoidea Olivoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of minute to medium-large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the order Neogastrop ...

Description

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Southeast

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References

* Simone, L. R., 2003. ''Revision of the genus Benthobia (Caenogastropoda, Pseudolividae)''. Journal of Molluscan Studies 69: 245-162 Benthobiidae Gastropods described in 2003 {{Pseudolividae-stub