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Bathytoma luehdorfi

Species of gastropod

Bathytoma luehdorfi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.[1]

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Description

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]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean between Japan and the Philippines

References

  1. [1]
    Bathytoma luehdorfi (Lischke, 1872). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 August 2011.
  2. [2]
    G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences
  • Asakura, A. 2001. A revision of the hermit crabs of the genera Catapagurus A. Milne-Edwards and Hemipagurus Smith from the Indo-West Pacific (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Paguridae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 15: 823-89
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