Bolma modesta

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Bolma modesta
Shell of Bolma modesta (Reeve, 1843), with operculum measuring 45.6 mm in height by 50.6 mm diameter, taken by tangle nets at 30 m off Point Daio, in Japan.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Turbinidae
Subfamily: Turbininae
Genus: Bolma
Species: B. modesta
Binomial name
Bolma modesta
(Reeve, 1843)
Synonyms[1]

Trochus modestus Reeve, 1843 (original combination)

A shell of Bolma modesta, with a Crepidula sp. attached.

Bolma modesta is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.[1]

Description

Distribution

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Bolma modesta (Reeve, 1843).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 10 September 2012.
  • Williams, S.T. (2007). Origins and diversification of Indo-West Pacific marine fauna: evolutionary history and biogeography of turban shells (Gastropoda, Turbinidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2007, 92, 573–592.
  • Alf A. & Kreipl K. (2011) The family Turbinidae. Subfamilies Turbininae Rafinesque, 1815 and Prisogasterinae Hickman & McLean, 1990. In: G.T. Poppe & K. Groh (eds), A Conchological Iconography. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. pp. 1–82, pls 104-245

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