Background Shelled pteropods are planktonic gastropods that are potentially good indicators of the effects of ocean acidification. They also have high potential for the study of zooplankton evolution because they are metazoan plankton with a good fossil

The name Cuvierina spoeli Rampal, 2002 cannot be understood as a new replacement name (nom. nov.) for Cuvierina atlantica, as published in the unavailable name Cuvierina columnella (Rang, 1827) f. atlantica van der Spoel, 1970. The name atlantica was

The name Cuvierina spoeli Rampal, 2002 cannot be understood as a new replacement name (nom. nov.) for Cuvierina atlantica, as published in the unavailable name Cuvierina columnella (Rang, 1827) f. atlantica van der Spoel, 1970. The name atlantica was