Puncturella agger
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| taxon = Puncturella agger
| authority = Watson, 1883Watson, R. B. 1883. Mollusca of H.M.S. 'Challenger' Expedition. Part XVI. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 17: 26–40
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| synonyms = Cranopsis agger (Watson, 1883)
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Puncturella agger is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Puncturella agger R. B. Watson, 1883. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=865230 on 2020-09-24
Description
The shell can grow to be 6 mm in length.{{Cite web|title=Cranopsis agger|url=http://www.gastropods.com/3/Shell_21713.shtml|website=www.gastropods.com|access-date=2020-05-16}}
Its functional group is Benthos.
Its feeding type is predatory, on mobile and sessile prey.
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Distribution
This species occurs in the Gulf of Mexico and off Puerto Rico at depths between 249 m and 1966 m
References
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- Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. García. 2009. Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas
External links
- [http://www.iobis.org/ Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System]
- [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/99383 Watson R.B. (1879-1883). Mollusca of H.M.S. 'Challenger' Expedition. Journal of the Linnean Society (London). 14: 506-529, 586-605, 692-716 [1879]; 15: 87-126, 217-230 [1880], 245-274, 388-412, 413-455, 457-475 [1881]; 16: 247-254, 324-343, 358-372, 373-392 [1882], 594-611 [1883]; 17: 26-40, 112-130, 284-293, 319-340, 341-346]
- [https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41155790 Pérez Farfante, I. (1947). The genera Zeidora, Nesta, Emarginula, Rimula and Puncturella in the western Atlantic. Johnsonia. 2: 93-148]
- [http://www.19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-Reports/Zool-42/README.htm Watson R.B. (1886). Report on the Scaphopoda and Gasteropoda collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Zoology. 15 (part 42): 1-756, pls 1-50]
- [https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/view/1605/5667 Serge GOFAS, Ángel A. LUQUE, Joan Daniel OLIVER, José TEMPLADO & Alberto SERRA (2021) - The Mollusca of Galicia Bank (NE Atlantic Ocean); European Journal of Taxonomy 785: 1–114]
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Category:Gastropods described in 1883
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