Perotrochus lucaya

Perotrochus lucaya, common name the Lucayan slit shell, is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pleurotomariidae, the slit snails.[2][3]

Perotrochus lucaya
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Pleurotomarioidea
Family: Pleurotomariidae
Genus: Perotrochus
Species:
P. lucaya
Binomial name
Perotrochus lucaya
Bayer, 1965 [1]

Description

The length of the shell varies between 25 mm and 60 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea off Venezuela and in the Atlantic Ocean off the Bahamas at depths between 275 m and 427 m.

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References
  1. Bayer, F. M. 1966. New pleurotomariid gastropods from the Western Atlantic, with a summary of the recent species. Bulletin of Marine Science 15: 737-796.
  2. Bouchet, P. (2012). Perotrochus lucaya Bayer, 1965. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=467988 on 2013-02-16
  3. Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS)
  • To Encyclopedia of Life
  • To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
  • To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
  • To ITIS
  • To World Register of Marine Species
  • "Perotrochus lucaya". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.


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