''Pictacollonia donghaiensis'' is a
species of small
sea snail
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with
calcareous opercula, 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 in the
family Colloniidae
Colloniidae is a family of small sea snails with calcareous opercula, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Vetigastropoda.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Colloniidae Cossmann, 1917. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at ...
.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Pictacollonia donghaiensis (Z.-Z. Dong, 1982). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1643773 on 2024-06-30]
Distribution
This species occurs in the
East China Sea
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References
* Dong, Z.-Z.
hengzhi (1982). A new species of the genus Collonia (Turbinidae) from the continental shelf of East China Sea. Studia Marina Sinica. 19: 81-83.
* Poppe, G.T., Tagaro, S.P. & Huang, S.-I. (2023). The recent Colloniidae with a study of the Colloniidae collected by various expeditions of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris. Harxheim: ConchBooks. 372 pp.
Colloniidae
Gastropods described in 1982
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