Biogeography of the deep-sea gastropod Oocorys sulcata Fischer 1884

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MICHAEL A. REX
CAROL T. STUART
RON J. ETTER
CRAIG R. MCCLAIN
(2010)
Volume
40
Part
3
Page from
287

The deep-sea gastropod Oocorys sulcata attains unusually large size, has a broad geographic range including the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific, maintains a global bathymetric range from the shelf-slope transition to the abyss, and is locally very rare. The extreme scale of its body size-distribution-abundance relationships presents a theoretical challenge to deep-sea ecology.

Keywords
Deep sea
Oocorys sulcata
Gastropod
Biogeography
Body size