Bathytoma gabrielae

Bathytoma gabrielae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Borsoniidae [1]
Genus: Bathytoma
Species: B. gabrielae
Binomial name
Bathytoma gabrielae
Bozzetti, 2006 [2]

Bathytoma gabrielae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.[3]


Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 30 mm and 50 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean along Tanzania and Mozambique.

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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. Bozzetti L. (2006) A new species of Bathytoma (Gastropoda: Turridae: Borsoniinae) from Southern Tanzania. Malacologia Mostra Mondiale 50: 6-7
  3. Bathytoma gabrielae Bozzetti, 2006.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 12 August 2011.