''Problacmaea sybaritica'' 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
true limpet
The Patellogastropoda, common name true limpets and historically called the Docoglossa, are members of a major phylogenetic group of marine gastropods, treated by experts either as a clade or as a taxonomic order.
The clade Patellogastropoda ...
, 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 Erginidae
Erginidae is a family of small deep sea sea snails or true limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the subclass Patellogastropoda.
Genera
* ''Erginus
In Greek mythology, Erginus ( grc, Ἐργῖνος) was the name of the following figures:
* ...
, one of the families of true limpets.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Problacmaea sybaritica (Dall, 1871). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1546910 on 2021-12-11]
Description
Distribution
This marine species occurs in the
Bering Sea
The Bering Sea (, ; rus, Бе́рингово мо́ре, r=Béringovo móre) is a marginal sea of the Northern Pacific Ocean. It forms, along with the Bering Strait, the divide between the two largest landmasses on Earth: Eurasia and The Ameri ...
.
References
* Lindberg D.R. (1988). Recent and fossil species of the genus Erginus from the North Pacific Ocean (Patellogastropoda: Mollusca). PaleoBios. 12(46): 1–7.
* Nakano & Ozawa (2007). ''Worldwide phylogeography of limpets of the order Patellogastropoda: Molecular, morphological and palaeontological evidence''. Journal of Molluscan Studies 73(1) 79–99
* Chernyshev, A.V. (2018). Erginidae fam. nov. (Patellogastropoda) – a new family of limpets. Bulletin of the Russian Far East Malacological Society. 22(1-2): 63-68
External links
Dall, W. H. (1871). On the limpets; with special reference to the species of the west coast of America, and to a more natural classification of the group. American Journal of Conchology. 6(3): 227-282.
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Erginidae
Gastropods described in 1871