Bathytoma viabrunnea

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Bathytoma viabrunnea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Borsoniidae [1]
Genus: Bathytoma
Species: B. viabrunnea
Binomial name
Bathytoma viabrunnea
(Dall, 1889)
Synonyms[2]

Pleurotoma viabrunnea Dall, 1889

Bathytoma viabrunnea, common name the brown-banded turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.[2]

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 40 mm and 70 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico

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. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Bathytoma viabrunnea (Dall, 1889).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 August 2011.
  • Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. García. 2009. Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
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