Goodingia capillastericola is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eulimidae. This species, along with Goodingia varicosa belongs in the genus Goodingia and are crinoid-parasitic.[1][2][3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Eulimidae |
| Genus: | Goodingia |
| Species: | G. capillastericola
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| Binomial name | |
| Goodingia capillastericola Minichev, 1970
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Description edit
G. capillastericola has an oblong, transparent, conical shell ending in a body whorl. It has a small operculum with a large proboscis. They have hermaphroditic reproductive systems. Due to their transparent shells, their soft flesh is visually exposed, demonstrating their characteristic white-and-brown striped patterning.[1][3]
As veliger, they possess a well-developed head and a foot, and small velar lobes (fleshy modules extending from the velum).[1]
G. capillastericola differs from its congener, Goodingia varicosa, by having a rounder shell and a different position of its seminal vesicle in its hermaphroditic reproductive system, hence their inability to cross-reproduce.[4][3]
Habitat edit
Goodingia capillastericola has been found in the Northern Red Sea (Gulf of Aqaba),[1] Japan (Amami-Oshima Island), and Papa New Guinea (Sek Island, Madang Province).[3] Specimens have been found attached to arms of the feather star Capillaster multiradiatus in coral reefs 2-2.5m deep.[1][3] Specimens found in Japan and Papa New Guinea were found to be morphologically identical, but genetically distinct.[3]
References edit
- ^ a b c d e Minichev, Yu S. (1970). "A new parasitic mollusk, Mucronalia capillastericola n.sp., living on crinoids". Issledovania po evolyutsionnoy morfologii bespozvonocnykh [= Research on evolutionary morphology of invertebrates]: 77–113.
- ^ Minichev, 1970. Warén A. (1980). Revision of the genera Thyca, Stilifer, Scalenostoma, Mucronalia and Echineulima (Mollusca, Prosobranchia, Eulimidae). Zoologica Scripta 9: 187-210. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=536143 on 2013-02-24.
- ^ a b c d e f Takano, Tsuyoshi; Goto, Ryutaro (February 2021). "Molecular and morphological systematics of the crinoid-parasitic snail genus Goodingia (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda: Eulimidae) with new insights into intrafamilial phylogenetic relationships". Marine Biodiversity. 51 (1). doi:10.1007/s12526-020-01141-0. ISSN 1867-1616.
- ^ Waren, Anders (April 1981). "Revision of the Genera Apicalia A. Adams and Stilapex lredale and Description of Two New Genera (Mollusca, Prosobranchia, Eulimidae)". Zoologica Scripta. 10 (2): 133–154. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.1981.tb00491.x. ISSN 0300-3256.
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