Bathytoma luehdorfi | |
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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: | Bathytoma |
Species: | B. luehdorfi
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Binomial name | |
Bathytoma luehdorfi (
Lischke, 1872)
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Synonyms [1] | |
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Bathytoma luehdorfi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae. [1]
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]
This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean between Japan and the Philippines
Bathytoma luehdorfi | |
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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: | Bathytoma |
Species: | B. luehdorfi
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Binomial name | |
Bathytoma luehdorfi (
Lischke, 1872)
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Synonyms [1] | |
|
Bathytoma luehdorfi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae. [1]
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]
This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean between Japan and the Philippines