Bathytoma luehdorfi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.[1]
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Borsoniidae |
Genus: | Bathytoma |
Species: | B. luehdorfi
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Binomial name | |
Bathytoma luehdorfi (Lischke, 1872)
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Synonyms[1] | |
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Description
editThe size of an adult shell varies between 30 mm and 70 mm. The shell is yellowish brown. The shoulder is concavely flattened, with a crenulated margin next the suture, and a tuberculate periphery. The surface shows spiral, white, distant sulci, and incremental striae. The white revolving sulci on the brownish surface are very distinctive in this species. The aperture is white.[2]
Distribution
editThis species occurs in the Pacific Ocean between Japan and the Philippines
References
edit- Asakura, A. 2001. A revision of the hermit crabs of the genera Catapagurus A. Milne-Edwards and Hemipagurus Smith from the Indo-West Pacific (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Paguridae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 15: 823-89
External links
editWikimedia Commons has media related to Bathytoma luehdorfi.
- "Bathytoma luehdorfi". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 13 August 2011.