Belaturricula gaini is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Borsoniidae |
| Genus: | Belaturricula |
| Species: | B. gaini
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| Binomial name | |
| Belaturricula gaini (Lamy, 1910)
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Description
editThe shell grows to a length of 73 mm.
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Distribution
editThis marine species occurs off the South Shetlands, the Scotia Sea, the Ross Sea and the Antarctic Ocean; also off the South Orkneys and the South Shetlands.
References
edit- ^ a b Belaturricula gaini (Lamy, 1910). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 8 August 2011.
- Lamy, E., 1910a. Mission dans l'Antarctique dirigée par M. le Dr. Charcot (1908–1910); Collections recueillies par M. le Dr. J. Liouville. Gastropodes Prosobranches et Scaphopodes. Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 16: 318–324.
- Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273–308.
- Kantor, Yuri I., and M. G. Harasewych. "Rediscovery of the Antarctic species Sipho gaini Lamy, 1910 (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda) with remarks on its taxonomic position." Antarctic Science 11.04 (1999): 430–435.
- Troncoso, Jesús S., et al. "Quantitative analysis of soft-bottom molluscs in the Bellingshausen Sea and around Peter I Island." Polar Research 26.2 (2007): 126–134
- Kantor, Yuri I., Myroslaw G. Harasewych, and Nicolas Puillandre. "A critical review of Antarctic Conoidea (Neogastropoda)." Molluscan Research 36.3 (2016): 153–206.
External links
edit- Antarctic Invertebrates : Belaturricula gaini; accessed: 13 August 2011
- "Belaturricula gaini". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
- Aldea & Troncoso: Systematics and distribution of shelled molluscs (Gastropoda, Bivalvia and Scaphopoda) from the South Shetlands to the Bellinghausen Sea, West Antarctica; Iberus : revista de la Sociedad Española de Malacología v.26 (2008)