Bathytoma luehdorfi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.[1]

Bathytoma luehdorfi
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Borsoniidae
Genus: Bathytoma
Species:
B. luehdorfi
Binomial name
Bathytoma luehdorfi
(Lischke, 1872)
Synonyms[1]
  • Genotia luhdorfi Lischke, 1872
  • Parabathytoma luhdorfi (Lischke, 1872)
  • Pleurotoma luehdorfi Lischke, 1872

Description

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The 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

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This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean between Japan and the Philippines

References

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  • 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
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  • "Bathytoma luehdorfi". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 13 August 2011.