''Spiralinella spiralis'' is a

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, a

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in the

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Pyramidellidae Pyramidellidae, common name the pyram family, or pyramid shells, is a voluminous taxonomic family of mostly small and minute ectoparasitic sea snails, marine heterobranch gastropod molluscs. The great majority of species of pyrams are micromol ...

, the pyrams and their allies.Gofas, S. (2015). Spiralinella spiralis (Montagu, 1803). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=836020 on 2015-04-06Peñas A. & Rolán E. (1998). La familia Pyramidellidae Gray, 1840 (Mollusca, Gastropoda) en África Occidental. 3. El género Chrysallida s.l. Iberus, suppl. 4 : 1-73.

Nomenclature

Høisæter (2014) advocated using the well-known specific name spiralis (Montagu, 1803) for this species, although ''Turbo spiralis'' Montagu, 1803 is a primary homonym of ''Turbo spiralis'' Poiret, 1801. The latter name could meet the conditions for being declared

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but so far Høisæter (2014) did not provide the citations required by

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Art. 23.9 to make the declaration effective.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the following locations: *

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Exclusive Economic Zone *

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an waters (ERMS scope) * Goote Bank *

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Exclusive economic Zone *

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Exclusive Economic Zone *

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Exclusive Economic Zone *

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Exclusive Economic Zone * West Coast of

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

Wimereux Wimereux (; vls, Wimeruwe) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. Geography Wimereux is a coastal town situated some north of Boulogne, at the junction of the D233 and the D940 roads, on the b ...

References

Høisæter, T. (2014). ''The Pyramidellidae (Gastropoda, Heterobranchia) of Norway and adjacent waters. A taxonomic review.'' Fauna norvegica. 34: 7-78

External links

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