Diacavolinia longirostris

Diacavolinia longirostris is a species of sea butterfly. It is a pteropod. ^[1]

Diacavolinia longirostris
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Clade:	Euopisthobranchia
Order:	Pteropoda
Family:	Cavoliniidae
Subfamily:	Cavoliniinae
Genus:	Diacavolinia
Species:	D. longirostris
Binomial name
Diacavolinia longirostris (Blainville, 1821)
Synonyms
Cavolinia longirostris (Blainville, 1821) Cavolinia longirostris f. longirostris (Blainville, 1821) Hyalaea longirostris Blainville, 1821 (original combination)

Description

The species is a pelagic animal. It could live in deep waters, up to 1234m. ^[2] 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.^[3][4]

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. ^[5]