Bathytoma prodicia

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Bathytoma prodicia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Borsoniidae [1]
Genus: Bathytoma
Species: B. prodicia
Binomial name
Bathytoma prodicia
Kilburn, 1986
Synonyms

Parabathytoma prodicia Kilburn, 1986

Bathytoma prodicia is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.[2]

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 35 mm and 55 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean along East and South Africa.

External links

References

  1. ↑ Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273-308.
  2. ↑ Bathytoma prodicia Kilburn, 1986.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 August 2011.


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