Cavolinia inflexa Fanged Sea Butterfly

Cavolinia inflexa is commonly referred to as Fanged Sea Butterfly. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for aquarium keeping. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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lexID:

16777 

AphiaID:

139029 

Scientific:

Cavolinia inflexa 

German:

Fangzahn Seeschmetterling 

English:

Fanged Sea Butterfly 

Category:

Snegler 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Pteropoda (Order) > Cavoliniidae (Family) > Cavolinia (Genus) > inflexa (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Lesueur, ), 1813 

Occurrence:

Azores, Costa Rica, Cuba, European Coasts, Greece, Gulf of Maine, Gulf of Mexico, Indian Ocean, Japan, Madeira, Malta, Mozambique, New Zealand, North Atlantic Ocean, North-West-Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, the Canary Islands, the Cape Verde Archipelago, the Caribbean, the Mediterranean Sea, Turkey 

Marine Zone:

Subtidal, sublittoral, infralittoral, deep zone of the oceans from the lower limit of the intertidal zone (intertidal) to the shelf edge at about 200 m water depth. neritic. 

Sea depth:

1 - 500 Meter 

Habitats:

Ocean beach, Seashore, Water column 

Size:

0" - 0" (0,2cm - 0,8cm) 

Temperature:

°F - 78.8 °F (°C - 26°C) 

Food:

Plankton 

Difficulty:

Not suitable for aquarium keeping 

Offspring:

None 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Not evaluated (NE) 

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• Cavolinia gibbosa
• Cavolinia globulosa
• 
  Cavolinia inflexa
  Fangzahn Seeschmetterling
• Cavolinia labiata
• Cavolinia tridentata
• Cavolinia uncinata

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2024-09-21 19:47:28 

Last edit:

2024-09-21 20:12:54 

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