original description(ofScaea stenogyra R. A. Philippi, 1844)Philippi, R. A. (1844). <i>Enumeratio molluscorum Siciliae cum viventium tum in tellure tertiaria fossilium, quae in itinere suo observavit. Vol. 2.</i>. Halle [Halis Saxorum]: Eduard Anton. iv + 303 pp., pls 13-28., available online athttps://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46936062 page(s): 164, pl 25 fig. 20 [details]
original description(ofTrochus lunaris Gmelin, 1791)Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Vermes. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(6). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. <em>Systema Naturae. Linneaeus (ed.). Ed. 13.</em> 1: pars. 6., available online athttp://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5[details]
original description(ofSpirialis gouldii W. Stimpson, 1851)Stimpson, W. (1851). Descriptions of two new species of shells from Massachusetts Bay, namely <i>Spirialis gouldii</i>, and <i>Thracia couthouyi</i>, and a Holothuria, under the name of <i>Anaperus unisemita</i>. <em>Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 4:7-9., available online athttps://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8870738#page/15/mode/1up page(s): p. 8. [details]
context source (Deepsea)Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online athttp://www.iobis.org/[details]
additional sourceSpencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.[details]
additional sourceJanssen, A.W. (2012). Late Quaternary to Recent holoplanktonic Mollusca (Gastropoda) from bottom samples of the eastern Mediterranean Sea: systematics, morphology. <em>Bollettino Malacologico.</em> 48 (suplemento 9): 1-105.[details] Available for editors [request]
additional sourceMorton, J. E. (1954). The biology of <i>Limacina retroversa</i>. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 33(2): 297-312., available online athttps://doi.org/10.1017/s002531540000833x[details] Available for editors [request]
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Dimensions maximum size up to 5 or 6 mm in length [details] Distribution Arctic seas to Cape Cod, Massachusetts [details] Habitat upper epipelagic and glacial [details]