Cavolinia tridentata
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Euopisthobranchia clade Thecosomata |
| Superfamily: | Cavolinioidea |
| Family: | Cavoliniidae |
| Genus: | Cavolinia |
| Species: | C. tridentata |
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Cavolinia tridentata (Forskål, 1775) |
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Cavolinia tridentata is a species of sea butterflies, floating and swimming sea snails or sea slugs, pelagic marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cavoliniidae.
The maximum recorded shell length is 20 mm.
This marine species has a wide distribution: European waters, the Mediterranean Sea, the Atlantic Ocean (Azores, Cape Verde), the Northwest Atlantic (Gulf of Maine), Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, the Lesser Antilles, Indian Ocean (Mascarene Basin), the Indo-Pacific and off New Zealand.
Minimum recorded depth is 0 m. Maximum recorded depth is 4791 m.
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