Austrotriton bassi is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cymatiidae.[1]
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| Shell of Austrotriton bassi (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Cymatiidae |
| Genus: | Austrotriton |
| Species: | A. bassi
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| Austrotriton bassi (Angas, 1869)
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Distribution
editThis marine species occurs in the Bass Strait off Tasmania
References
edit- ^ a b Austrotriton bassi (Angas, 1869). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 December 2018.
External links
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- Angas, G. F. (1869). Descriptions of twelve new species of land and marine shells from Australia and the Solomon Islands. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1869: 45–49
- Strong E.E., Puillandre N., Beu A.G., Castelin M. & Bouchet P. (2019). Frogs and tuns and tritons – A molecular phylogeny and revised family classification of the predatory gastropod superfamily Tonnoidea (Caenogastropoda). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 130: 18-34