Awateria watsoni | |
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Original drawing of a shell of Awateria watsoni | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Borsoniidae |
Genus: | Awateria |
Species: | A. watsoni
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Binomial name | |
Awateria watsoni (E. A. Smith, 1891)
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Synonyms [1] | |
Pleurotoma (Drillia) watsoni E. A. Smith, 1891 (original combination) |
Awateria watsoni is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae. [1]
The length of the shell attains 6.5 mm, its breadth 3.3 mm.
(Original description) This small, white shell has a short fusiform shape. It has a large smooth apex. The upper slope of the six whorls is comparatively smooth, exhibiting only a few (about 4) faint spiral lirae, and the lower portion and the greater part of the body whorl are covered with a distinct cancellation, the points of intersection of the oblique and transverse lirae being rather acutely nodulose. The sinus is moderately deep. The arcuate lip is prominent. [2]
This marine species is endemic to Australia.
Awateria watsoni | |
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Original drawing of a shell of Awateria watsoni | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Borsoniidae |
Genus: | Awateria |
Species: | A. watsoni
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Binomial name | |
Awateria watsoni (E. A. Smith, 1891)
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Synonyms [1] | |
Pleurotoma (Drillia) watsoni E. A. Smith, 1891 (original combination) |
Awateria watsoni is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae. [1]
The length of the shell attains 6.5 mm, its breadth 3.3 mm.
(Original description) This small, white shell has a short fusiform shape. It has a large smooth apex. The upper slope of the six whorls is comparatively smooth, exhibiting only a few (about 4) faint spiral lirae, and the lower portion and the greater part of the body whorl are covered with a distinct cancellation, the points of intersection of the oblique and transverse lirae being rather acutely nodulose. The sinus is moderately deep. The arcuate lip is prominent. [2]
This marine species is endemic to Australia.