Arene balboai is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Areneidae.Keen M. (1971) Sea shells of tropical West America. Marine mollusks from Baja California to Perú, ed. 2. Stanford University Press. 1064 pp.
Etymology It is named after Nunez de Balboa.
Description
The shell can grow to be 3 mm to 4.5 mm in length.
Distribution Arene Balboai can be found off of the Taboga Island and the Cocos Island.; also off Baja California, Mexico.
References
Strong, A. M. & Hertlein, L. G. (1939). Marine mollusks from Panama collected by the Allan Hancock Expedition to the Galapagos Islands, 1931-1932. Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions, University of Southern California Press, Los Angeles. 2(12): 177-245, pls 18-23.
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