Bathysciadium costulatum

Bathysciadium costulatum is a species of sea snail, deep-sea limpet, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Bathysciadiidae.[3]

Bathysciadium costulatum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Cocculiniformia
Superfamily: Cocculinoidea
Family: Bathysciadiidae
Genus: Bathysciadium
Species:
B. costulatum
Binomial name
Bathysciadium costulatum
(Locard, 1898)[1]
Synonyms
  • Lepeta costulata Locard 1898
  • Bathysciadium conicum Dautzenberg & Fischer H. 1900[2]

Distribution
  • European waters[3]

Description

The maximum recorded shell length is 1.5 mm.[4]

Habitat

Minimum recorded depth is 808 m.[4] Maximum recorded depth is 1400 m.[4]

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References
  1. 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.
  2. Dautzenberg P. & Fischer H. (1900). "Description d'un mollusque nouveau". Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 24: 207–209.
  3. Bathysciadium costulatum (Locard, 1898). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 30 March 2010.
  4. Welch J. J. (2010). "The "Island Rule" and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". PLoS ONE 5(1): e8776. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008776.
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