Diacavolinia longirostris is a species of sea butterfly. It is a pteropod.MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Diacavolinia longirostris (Blainville, 1821). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=405962 on 2023-11-19
Description The species is a pelagic animal. It could live in deep waters, up to 1234m. The species has a small shell with big round 'wings' which it uses to swim and glide through the water. Its length attains 9 mm, its diameter 6.3 mm.Mollusca.co.nz: Diacavolinia longirostris
Distribution The species is mostly concentrated near Papua New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia in the Oceanic region, in the Bay of Bengal and near the Gulf of Mexico, near Louisiana and the Bahamas.
References
Jensen, R. H. (1997). A Checklist and Bibliography of the Marine Molluscs of Bermuda. Unp., 547 pp Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. pp 196–219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. Rosenberg, G.; Moretzsohn, F.; García, E. F. (2009). Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. Janssen, A. W.; Bush, S. L. & Bednaršek, N. (2019). The shelled pteropods of the northeast Pacific Ocean (Mollusca: Heterobranchia, Pteropoda). Zoosymposia. 13: 305-346
External links Blainville, H. M. D. de. (1821). Hyale, Hyalæa (Malacoz.), pp. 65-83, in: Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles (F. Cuvier, ed.), vol. 22. Levrault, Strasbourg & Le Normant, Paris Janssen, A. W. (2007). Holoplanktonic Mollusca (Gastropoda) from the gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea and gulf of Aden (Late Holocene-Recent). The Veliger. 49 (3): 140-195 Spoel, S. van der; Bleeker, J. & Kobayasi, H. (1993). From Cavolinia longirostris to twenty-four Diacavolinia taxa, with a phylogenetic discussion. Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde. 62(3): 127-166