Epidendrium billeeanum
| Epidendrium billeeanum | |
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| Two live individuals of Epidendrium billeeanum and a mass of egg capsules, in situ on their food source, a cup coral | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | incertae sedis |
| Family: | Epitoniidae |
| Genus: | Epidendrium |
| Species: | E. billeeanum |
| Binomial name | |
| Epidendrium billeeanum (DuShane & Bratcher, 1965) | |
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Epidendrium billeeanum, commonly known as the yellow sea snail or the golden wentletrap, is a species of small predator and ectoparasite sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Epitoniidae, the wentletraps.[1] They are Native to many different oceans.[2]
Distribution
This species is widespread throughout the tropical waters of the Indo-Pacific and the occidental Pacific Ocean including the Red Sea, Hawaii and the Galapagos.[3]
Description
The golden wentletrap has a bright yellow helicoidal shell which grows up to 1 cm in length. It is often found on corals from genus Tubastraea on which it feeds.[3]
References
- 1 2 WoRMS (2010). Epidendrium billeeanum (DuShane & Bratcher, 1965). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=523762 on 2010-11-23
- ↑ "Marine Gastropods: Ecology and Habitats". molluscs.at. Retrieved 3 June 2026.
- 1 2 "Epidendrium billeeanum | DORIS".
- Bertsch, H., Groves, L. T. & Dees, R. (2025). Invertebrate eponyms honoring women members of the Western Society of Malacologists. The Western Society of Malacologists, Occasional Papers. Number 4: 1–270, pls. 1-S263A-L.
External links
- DuShane, H. & Bratcher, T. (1965). "A new Scalina from the Gulf of California". The Veliger. 8 (2): 160–161.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - Brook, F. J. & Marshall, B. A. "Checklist of benthic coastal marine chitons, bivalves, gastropods and cephalopods of the northern Kermadec Islands. pp. 210–233 in Brook, F.J. 1998: The coastal molluscan fauna of the northern Kermadec Islands, southwest Pacific Ocean". Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 28 (2): 185–233. doi:10.1080/03014223.1998.9517560.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - Gittenberger A. & Gittenberger E. (2005). "A hitherto unnoticed adaptive radiation: epitoniid species (Gastropoda: Epitoniidae) associated with corals (Scleractinia)". Contributions to Zoology. 74 (1–2): 125–203. doi:10.1163/18759866-0740102009.
- "Epitonium (Asperiscala) billeeanum". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 23 November 2010.
- http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=523762
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