Gemmuloborsonia colorata
Appearance
Gemmuloborsonia colorata | |
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Shell of Gemmuloborsonia colorata (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Turridae |
Genus: | Gemmuloborsonia |
Species: | G. colorata
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Binomial name | |
Gemmuloborsonia colorata (Sysoev & Bouchet, 2001)
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Synonyms[1] | |
Bathytoma colorata Sysoev & Bouchet, 2001 (basionym) |
Gemmuloborsonia colorata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae.[1][2]
Description
[edit]The length of the shell attains 45.5 mm.
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Distribution
[edit]This marine species occurs at depths between 490 m and 550 m off Vanuatu, New Caledonia, in the Coral Sea and French Polynesia. It has also been found in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar and Réunion.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Gemmuloborsonia colorata (Sysoev & Bouchet, 2001). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 August 2011.
- ^ P. Bouchet; Yu. I. Kantor; A. Sysoev; N. Puillandre (2011). "A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda)". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77 (3): 273–308. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr017.
External links
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- Puillandre, N., C. Cruaud, and Yu I. Kantor. "Cryptic species in Gemmuloborsonia (Gastropoda: Conoidea)." Journal of Molluscan Studies 76.1 (2010): 11-23[dead link ]
- Bouchet, Philippe, et al. "A quarter-century of deep-sea malacological exploration in the South and West Pacific: where do we stand? How far to go." Tropical deep-sea Benthos 25 (2008): 9-40
- Specimen of Gemmuloborsonia colorata at MNHN, Paris