Table T1. Environmental preferences for dominant planktonic gastropod species.
| Species | Temperature range (°C) |
Salinity range | Depth range (m) |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atlanta plana | — | — | — | Warm-water cosmopolitan species |
| Atlanta selvagensis | — | — | — | Warm-water cosmopolitan species |
| Carinaria lamarckii | — | — | — | Warm-water cosmopolitan species |
| Creseis clava | 10–27.9 | 35.5–36.7 | 50–750 | Warm-water cosmopolitan species |
| Creseis virgula | 15–27.9 | 35.0–36.7 | 50–319 | Warm-water cosmopolitan species |
| Diacria quadridentata | 19.0–25.5 | 35.7–36.3 | 0–700 | Warm-water cosmopolitan species |
| Gleba cordata | — | — | — | |
| Heliconoides inflatus | 14–28 | 35.5–36.7 | 232–236 | Warm-water cosmopolitan species |
| Limacina bulimoides | 13.8–27.8 | 35.5–36.7 | 80–120 | Very abundant subtropical species |
| Limacina trochiformis | 13.8–27.9 | 35.5–36.8 | 50–165 | Tropical species |
| Styliola subula | 14.2–27.7 | 35.5–36.7 | 81–234 | Subtropical species |
— = unknown.
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