Bathytoma atractoides
| Bathytoma atractoides | |
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| Apertural view of Bathytoma attractoides boholica | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Borsoniidae [1] |
| Genus: | Bathytoma |
| Species: | B. atractoides |
| Binomial name | |
| Bathytoma atractoides (Watson, 1881) | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Pleurotoma atractoides Watson, 1881 | |
Bathytoma atractoides is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.[2]
Description
The size of an adult shell varies between 39 mm and 75 mm
Distribution
This marine species occurs in the Eastern Indian Ocean; along West Australia and in Oceania.
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References
- Puillandre N., Sysoev A.V., Olivera B.M., Couloux A. & Bouchet P. (2010) Loss of planktotrophy and speciation: geographical fragmentation in the deep-water gastropod genus Bathytoma (Gastropoda, Conoidea) in the western Pacific. Biodiversity and Systematics 8(3): 371-394.