''Pandalosia ephamilla'' is a

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of minute

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, a

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in the

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Zebinidae.

Description

Distribution

This species occurs in the

Red Sea The Red Sea ( ar, البحر الأحمر - بحر القلزم, translit=Modern: al-Baḥr al-ʾAḥmar, Medieval: Baḥr al-Qulzum; or ; Coptic: ⲫⲓⲟⲙ ⲛ̀ϩⲁϩ ''Phiom Enhah'' or ⲫⲓⲟⲙ ⲛ̀ϣⲁⲣⲓ ''Phiom ǹšari''; T ...

and off

New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...

References

Watson R. B. (1886). Report on the Scaphopoda and Gasteropoda collected by HMS Challenger during the years 1873-1876. Reports of the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. "Challenger", Zoology : 15 (part 42): 1-756, pl. 1-50 and Caecidae pl. 1-3
* Baker F., Hanna G.D. & Strong A.M. (1930) ''Some rissoid Mollusca from the Gulf of California''. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, ser. 4, 19(4): 23-40, pl. 1. ublished 15 July 1930page(s): 30, pl. 1 fig. 15 * Vine, P. (1986). ''Red Sea Invertebrates''. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp * Sleurs W.J.M. (1989) ''A zoogeographical analysis of the rissoinine fauna of the eastern Pacific with special reference to a comparison with the Caribbean fauna and with a checklist of the eastern Pacific Rissoininae Stimpson, 1865 (Mollusca: Gastropoda).'' Annales de la Société Royale Zoologique de Belgique 119(2): 155-164.
Ponder W. F. (1985) ''A review of the genera of the Rissoidae (Mollusca: Mesogastropoda: Rissoacea)''. Records of the Australian Museum supplement 4: 1-221
* Faber, M. & K. Kaiser. (2015). ''The Rissoinidae of Île Clipperton in the tropical eastern Pacific (Mollusca. Gastropoda)''. Miscellanea Malacologica. 7, 19-23

External links

* {{Taxonbar, from=Q3174855 Zebinidae Gastropods described in 1886 Molluscs of New Zealand