Anatoma atlantica
| Anatoma atlantica | |
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| Shell of Anatoma atlantica (specimen at the Natural History Museum Rotterdam) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Lepetellida |
| Family: | Anatomidae |
| Genus: | Anatoma |
| Species: | A. atlantica
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| Binomial name | |
| Anatoma atlantica (Bandel, 1998)
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Anatoma atlantica is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Anatomidae. [1]
Description
The shell of this species grows to a length of 2.1 mm.
Distribution
This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Eastern Florida and North Carolina, USA; also off the Bahamas and Brazil.
References
- ^ a b Anatoma atlantica (Bandel, 1998). 15 July 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- Bandel, K. 1998. Scissurellidae als Modell für die Variationsbreite einer natürlichen Einheit der Schlitzbandschnecken (Mollusca, Archaeogastropoda). Mitteilungen aus dem Geologisch-paläontogischen Institut der Universität Hamburg 81: 1–120, 23 pls.
- Geiger D.L. (2012) Monograph of the little slit shells. Volume 1. Introduction, Scissurellidae. pp. 1–728. Volume 2. Anatomidae, Larocheidae, Depressizonidae, Sutilizonidae, Temnocinclidae. pp. 729–1291. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Monographs Number 7.
- Pimenta A.D. & Geiger D.L. (2015). Taxonomic revision of the Anatomidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) from Brazil, with description of four new species. Malacologia. 59(1): 135-175.