Bolma recens is a large sea snail with a calcareous operculum, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.[1]
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| Shell of Bolma recens (holotype of Bolma recens clemenceae at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Turbinidae |
| Genus: | Bolma |
| Species: | B. recens
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| Binomial name | |
| Bolma recens Dell, 1967
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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- Subspecies
- Bolma recens clemenceae Bozzetti, 2010
- Bolma recens recens (Dell, 1967)
Distribution
editThis species is known to occur in deep water on the Kiwi Seamount, north of New Zealand; also off Madagascar.
References
edit- ^ a b Marshall, B.; Gofas, S. (2014). Bolma recens (Dell, 1967). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=555222 on 2014-08-17
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
- Location of Kiwi Seamount in the Pacific
- Dell, R.K. 1967. Some Mollusca from deep water to the north of New Zealand, collected by the Tui, 1962. Records of the Dominion Museum 5: 305-315.
- Bozzetti, L., 2010. Bolma clemenceae (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda: Turbinidae: Astraeinae) dal Madagascar meridionale. Malacologia Mostra Mondiale 69: 11-12
External links
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- "Bolma (Ormastralium) recens". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
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