Bathytoma prodicia
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Bathytoma prodicia | |
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Apertural view of a shell of Bathytoma prodicia | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Borsoniidae |
Genus: | Bathytoma |
Species: | B. prodicia
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Binomial name | |
Bathytoma prodicia Kilburn, 1986
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Synonyms[1] | |
Parabathytoma prodicia Kilburn, 1986 |
Bathytoma prodicia is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.[1]
Description
[edit]The size of an adult shell varies between 35 mm and 55 mm.
Distribution
[edit]This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off East and South Africa (Southern Mozambique to Zanzibar)
References
[edit]- ^ a b Bathytoma prodicia Kilburn, 1986. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 August 2011.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bathytoma prodicia.
- "Parabathytoma prodicia". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 13 August 2011.
- Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273-308.
- Alexander V. Sysoev, Deep-sea conoidean gastropods collected by the John Murray Expedition, 1933-34; Bulletin of the Natural History Museum. v.62 # 1 (1996), London