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Bolbosoma balaenae (Gmelin 1790)

Body symmetry

Namigai et al 2014
bilaterally symmetric
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001324

Definition: being symmetric about a plane running from frontal end to caudal end (head to tail), and having nearly identical right and left halves

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body length

MADtraits

8.09 mm

(single measurement)

body shape

MADtraits
cylinder
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ID_0000058

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Alava and Aguirre 2005
vermiform
URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7921571

Definition: shaped like a worm

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body width

MADtraits

0.41 mm

(single measurement)

cellularity

Cellularity and growth form
multicellular
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001993

Definition: A cellularity quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearers consisting of more than one cell. [ PATOC:GVG ]

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geographic distribution

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World Register of Marine Species
subantarctic
URI: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1141556

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World Register of Marine Species
cosmopolitan
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Cosmopolitan

Attribution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmopolitan_distribution

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World Register of Marine Species
North Atlantic
URI: http://www.marineregions.org/mrgid/1912

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World Register of Marine Species
Antarctic
URI: http://www.geonames.org/6632710

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World Register of Marine Species
Tyrrhenian Sea
URI: http://www.marineregions.org/mrgid/3386

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have host

Brusca and Brusca, 2003
vertebrates
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/vertebrate

Definition: Members of the clade Vertebrata. http://eol.org/pages/2774383

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(adult)

latitude

OBIS environmental data records

40 degrees

(min)
OBIS environmental data records

40 degrees

(max)

longitude

OBIS environmental data records

-40 degrees

(max)
OBIS environmental data records

-40 degrees

(min)

number of hosts

MADtraits

3
MADtraits

2
MADtraits

1

number of records in gbif

GBIF data coverage

34

reproduction

Fairbairn 2013
sexual reproduction
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0019953

Definition: Capable of creating a new organism by combining the genetic material of two gametes, which may come from two parent organisms or from a single organism, in the case of self-fertilizing hermaphrodites.

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sexual system

Fairbairn 2013
dioecious
URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q148681

Definition: a characteristic of a species, meaning that it has distinct male and female individual organisms.

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trophic guild

World Register of Marine Species
endoparasite
URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q9300235

Definition: parasite that lives within the body or cells of its host

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MADtraits
parasite
URI: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q12806437

Definition: organism adapted to living on or in another organism and causing harm to its host

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MADtraits
parasite
URI: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q12806437

Definition: organism adapted to living on or in another organism and causing harm to its host

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Brusca and Brusca, 2003
intestinal parasite
URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q58339313

Definition: parasite that lives within the intestines of its host

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(adult)
Brusca and Brusca, 2003
vertivore
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/vertivore

Definition: carnivorous animal which eats primarily vertebrates

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