Copulabyssia leptalea

Copulabyssia leptalea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily:	Lepetelloidea
Family:	Pseudococculinidae
Genus:	Copulabyssia
Species:	C. leptalea
Binomial name
	Copulabyssia leptalea; (A. E. Verrill, 1884) [1]
Synonyms
	Cocculina leptalea A. E. Verrill, 1884

Copulabyssia leptalea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudococculinidae.[2]

Description

The shell grows to a size of 4 mm.

This marine species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean from New Jersey to East Florida, USA, at depths between 530 m and 3800 m.

The maximum recorded shell length is 4 mm.[3]

Minimum recorded depth is 534 m.[3] Maximum recorded depth is 3834 m.[3]

Verrill, A. E. 1884. Second catalogue of Mollusca recently added to the fauna of the New England coast and the adjacent parts of the Atlantic, consisting mostly of deep-sea species, with notes on others previously recorded. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 6: 139–294, pls. 28–32.
Copulabyssia leptalea (A. E. Verrill, 1884). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 9 April 2010.
Welch J. J. (2010). "The "Island Rule" and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". PLoS ONE 5(1): e8776. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008776.

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