Bathytoma prodicia is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.[1]
| Bathytoma prodicia | |
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| Apertural view of a shell of Bathytoma prodicia | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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] | |
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Parabathytoma prodicia Kilburn, 1986 | |
Description
editThe size of an adult shell varies between 35 mm and 55 mm.
Distribution
editThis 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