''Creseis virgula'' is a species of
gastropods belonging to the family
Creseidae
Creseidae is a family of gastropods belonging to the order Pteropoda
Pteropoda (common name pteropods, from the Greek meaning "wing-foot") are specialized free-swimming pelagic sea snails and sea slugs, marine opisthobranch gastropods. Most ...
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The larvae are
zooplankton.
The species has almost
cosmopolitan distribution
In biogeography, cosmopolitan distribution is the term for the range of a taxon that extends across all or most of the world in appropriate habitats. Such a taxon, usually a species, is said to exhibit cosmopolitanism or cosmopolitism. The ext ...
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References
Creseidae
Gastropods described in 1828
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