Gaillea canetae

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| genus = Gaillea

| species = canetae

| authority = (Clench & Aguayo, 1944)

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  • Buccinum canetae Clench & Aguayo, 1944 (original combination)
  • Eosipho canetae (Clench & Aguayo, 1944)
  • Manaria canetae (Clench & Aguayo, 1944)
  • Metula canetae (Clench & Aguayo, 1944)
  • Plicifusus jamarci Okutani, 1982

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Gaillea canetae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Eosiphonidae, the true whelks and their allies.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Gaillea canetae (Clench & Aguayo, 1944). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=744009 on 2021-06-20

Description

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Distribution

A rare deepwater species.

Taken alive in fish traps set at 1,700 ft. depth (515 metres)

Offshore West coast BARBADOS, Lesser Antilles.

References

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  • Fraussen, K.; Stahlschmidt, P. (2016). The extensive Indo-Pacific deep-water radiation of Manaria E.A. Smith, 1906 (Gastropoda: Buccinidae) and related genera, with descriptions of 21 new species. in: Héros, V. et al. (Ed.) Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 29. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (1993). 208: 363-456