Kingdom Animalia Superfamily Capuloidea Genus Ariadnaria Phylum Mollusca | Class Gastropoda Family Capulidae Scientific name Trichotropis borealis Rank Species | |
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Similar Trichotropis, Capulidae, Capulus, Cylichna, Calyptraea | ||
Ariadnaria borealis, common name the boreal hairysnail, is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Capulidae, the cap snails.
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Distribution
This species occurs in the North Sea, the Canadian part of the Arctic Ocean, in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean.
Description
The maximum recorded shell length is 22 mm.
Habitat
Minimum recorded depth is 2 m. Maximum recorded depth is 574 m.
References
Ariadnaria borealis Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA