''Haplocochlias concepcionensis'' 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 ...
of
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 ...
mollusk
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 e ...
in the
family
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Skeneidae
The Skeneidae are a speciose family of minute to small marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Trochoidea.Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2013). Skeneidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php ...
.
[Gofas, S. (2013). Haplocochlias concepcionensis (Lowe, 1933). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=737566 on 2013-10-21]
References
* Keen M. (1971) ''Sea shells of tropical West America. Marine mollusks from Baja California to Perú, ed. 2''. Stanford University Press. 1064 pp.
* Rubio F., Fernández-Garcés R. & Rolán E. 2013. ''The genus Haplocochlias (Gastropoda, Skeneidae).'' Iberus, 31(2): 41–126 page(s): 96–98
concepcionensis
Gastropods described in 1933
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