Megastomia boteroi

Megastomia boteroi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
Superfamily: Pyramidelloidea
Family: Pyramidellidae
Genus: Megastomia
Species: M. boteroi
Binomial name
Megastomia boteroi
(Schander, 1994)[1]

Megastomia boteroi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.[2]

Description

The size of the shell attains 4 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Senegal.

References

  1. Schander C. (1994 ["1993") Twenty-eight new species of Pyramidellidae (Gastropoda, Heterobranchia) from West Africa. Notiziario CISMA 15: 11-78. [15 February 1994]]. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 2011-10-25.
  2. Gofas, S. (2015). Megastomia boteroi (Schander, 1994). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=762020 on 2015-12-13

External links

External identifiers for Megastomia boteroi
WoRMS 762020


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Sunday, December 13, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.