''Cerithiella enodis'' is a
species
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of very small
sea snail
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, a
marine
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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 ...
mollusk
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in the family
Newtoniellidae
Newtoniellidae is a family of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the superfamily Triphoroidea.
Bouchet, P. (2011)Newtoniellidae World Register of Marine Species. marinespecies.org
It contains the following subfamilie ...
. This species is known from
Europe
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an waters. It was described by Watson in 1880.
''Cerithiella enodis''
at World Register of Marine Species
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Description
The maximum recorded shell
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length is .[Welch J. J. (2010). "The "Island Rule" and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". '' PLoS ONE'' 5(1): e8776. .]
Habitat
Only recorded depth is .
References
Newtoniellidae
Gastropods described in 1880
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