Torellia mirabilis

Torellia mirabilis is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Capulidae, the cap snails.[1]

Torellia mirabilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:
Capuloidea
Family:
Capulidae
Genus:
Torellia
Species:
T. mirabilis
Binomial name
Torellia mirabilis
(Smith, 1907)

Distribution

Description

The maximum recorded shell length is 42 mm.[2]

Habitat

Minimum recorded depth is 73 m.[2] Maximum recorded depth is 662 m.[2]

gollark: It's consistently atrociously terrible, yes.
gollark: Having to multiply and divide by a thousand all the time for various units was so mildly annoying when I did chemistry last year.
gollark: A 1g reference would have been small and thus uncool.
gollark: Maybe because the kilogram was based on an actual physical object until recently.
gollark: Double SI prefixes are forbidden by the spec, so it would be Mg.

References
  1. Torellia mirabilis (Smith, 1907). WoRMS (2009). Torellia mirabilis (Smith, 1907). Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=197486 on 5 June 2010 .
  2. 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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