“SEGUENZIA ANTARCTICA Thiele 1925
Plate 3, figure 10
Three specimens were found which seem to fit this species, one each at station 18 (2262 fathoms, near the northern edge of the Cape Basin and approximately 400 miles west of Walvis Bay, South-West Africa), station 50 (2064 fathoms, near the southern end of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge on the Atlantic Indian Antarctic Basin), and station 53 (2670 fathoms, Cape Basin, about 300 miles southwest of Capetown, South Africa). The species is truly abyssal; the only other recorded specimen being Thiele’s type collected from approximately 2520 fathoms at 63º16.5’S, 57º51’E in the eastern end of the Atlantic Indian Antarctic Basin.”
(Clarke, 1961: 350)
Seguenzia antarctica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Seguenziidae.[2]
The height of the shell attains 5 mm (0.20 in).
This species occurs in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica.
Seguenzia antarctica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Seguenziidae.
