''Micropleurotoma travailleuri'' is a species 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 in the family

Horaiclavidae Horaiclavidae is a family of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea. In 2011 this family was split off from the family Pseudomelatomidae (formerly the subfamily Crassispirinae McLean, 1971) by Bouchet P., Ka ...

Description

The length of the shell attains 10 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off

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at bathyal depths.

References

Locard A., 1897–1898 : ''Expéditions scientifiques du Travailleur et du Talisman pendant les années 1880, 1881, 1882 et 1883. Mollusques testacés.''; Paris, Masson vol. 1 [1897], p. 1-516 pl. 1–22 vol. 2 [1898], p. 517-1044 pl. 23–40
* Bouchet P. & Warén A. (1980). ''Revision of the North-East Atlantic bathyal and abyssal Turridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda).'' Journal of Molluscan Studies Suppl. 8: 1–119 * Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180–213

External links

Tucker, J.K. 2004 ''Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)''. Zootaxa 682:1–1295

Lectotype at MNHN, Paris

Gofas, S.; Luque, Á. A.; Templado, J.; Salas, C. (2017). A national checklist of marine Mollusca in Spanish waters. Scientia Marina. 81(2) : 241–254
travailleuri Gastropods described in 1980 {{Horaiclavidae-stub