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