Bathytoma_prodicia
Bathytoma prodicia
Species of gastropod
Bathytoma prodicia is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.[1]
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Bathytoma prodicia | |
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Apertural view of a shell of Bathytoma prodicia | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Borsoniidae |
Genus: | Bathytoma |
Species: | B. prodicia |
Binomial name | |
Bathytoma prodicia Kilburn, 1986 | |
Synonyms[1] | |
Parabathytoma prodicia Kilburn, 1986 |
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The size of an adult shell varies between 35 mm and 55 mm.
This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off East and South Africa (Southern Mozambique to Zanzibar)
- Bathytoma prodicia Kilburn, 1986. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 August 2011.
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- "Parabathytoma prodicia". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 13 August 2011.
- Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273-308.
- Alexander V. Sysoev, Deep-sea conoidean gastropods collected by the John Murray Expedition, 1933-34; Bulletin of the Natural History Museum. v.62 # 1 (1996), London
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