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A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca

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Gastropoda: : Eulimoidea: Eulimidae

Melanella orphanensis Clarke, 1974


Range: 50.55°N to 40.03°N; 70.68°W to 9.58°W
Depth: 196 to 1752 m (live 196 to 196 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 4.6  mm

Details


Melanella orphanensis Clarke, 1974, p. 15, fig. 5
[Basis of the current name]
Type Locality: U.S.S. Lynch, 1971, Sta. 6, Labrador Sea on Orphan Knoll, 50°32.9'N, 46°22.0'W, 961 fms [sic, 958]
Range: 50.55°N to 40.03°N; 70.68°W to 9.58°W
Depth: 196 to 1752 m (live 196 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 4.6 mm
References: Clarke (1974) DNM; Bouchet & Warén (1986b) dLSEW


Partial List of References

Clarke, A. H. 1974. Mollusc from Baffin Bay and the northern North Atlantic Ocean National Museum of Natural Science, Publications in Biological Oceanography 7 xii + 23 pp.

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