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Asthelys antarctica

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Gastropoda

Superfamily
  
Seguenzioidea

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Clade
  
Vetigastropoda

Family
  
Seguenziidae

Asthelys antarctica is a species of extremely small deep water sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Seguenziidae.

Contents

Description

The shell attains a height of 5.8 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in Antarctic waters off the South Shetland Islands at a depth of about 3700 m.

References

Asthelys antarctica Wikipedia