Macrarene cookeana, common name Miss Cooke's liotia, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Liotiidae.[1][2]
Macrarene cookeana | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
Order: | Trochida |
Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
Family: | Liotiidae |
Genus: | Macrarene |
Species: | M. cookeana
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Binomial name | |
Macrarene cookeana (Dall, 1918)
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Synonyms[1] | |
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Description
editThe length of the shell varies between 18 mm and 30 mm.
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Distribution
editThis species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off Baja California, Mexico.
References
edit- Notes
- ^ a b Rosenberg, G. (2012). Macrarene cookeana (Dall, 1918). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=528080 on 2012-12-03
- ^ Turgeon, D.D., et al. 1998. Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates of the United States and Canada. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26
- Sources
- Abbott R. T. (1974). American Seashells. The marine mollusca of the Atlantic and Pacific coast of North America. II edit. Van Nostrand, New York 663 p. + 24 pl:
page(s): 53
External links
edit- Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
- Encyclopedia of Life
- USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
- ITIS
- World Register of Marine Species
- "Macrarene cookeana". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.