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Batheulima fuscoapicata

species of mollusc

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ4869009 ↗
Source-derived summary

Batheulima fuscopicata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Eulimidae.

Distribution

This marine species is found in the following locations:

Cape Verde archipelago

European waters (ERMS scope)

Northern Spain

Description

The maximum recorded shell length is 4 mm.

Habitat

Minimum recorded depth is 805 m. Maximum recorded depth is 805 m.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Batheulima fuscoapicata” is species of mollusc. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Batheulima, fuscoapicata and species, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current 57-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Batheulima, fuscoapicata and species is the immediate research focus.
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Evidence profile

The date and method of observation matter as much as the stated conclusion, especially where classification or consensus has changed. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4869009. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Batheulima fuscoapicata” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.