Glyphostoma rostrata

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Glyphostoma rostrata
Apertural view of Glyphostoma rostrata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Clathurellidae[1]
Genus: Glyphostoma
Species: G. rostrata
Binomial name
Glyphostoma rostrata
Sysoev & Bouchet, 2001

Glyphostoma rostrata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clathurellidae.[2]

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 20 and 30 millimetres (0.79 and 1.18 in).

Distribution

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean along the Philippines and New Caledonia.

References

  1. 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. 
  2. Glyphostoma rostrata Sysoev & Bouchet, 2001.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 18 August 2011.

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