Belaturricula gaini

Belaturricula gaini
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Clade:	Caenogastropoda
Clade:	Hypsogastropoda
Clade:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Borsoniidae
Genus:	Belaturricula
Species:	B. gaini
Binomial name
Belaturricula gaini (Lamy, 1910)
Synonyms[1]
Belaturricula antarctica Dell, 1990 Sipho gaini Lamy, 1910 (original combination)

Belaturricula gaini is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.^[1]

Description

The shell grows to a length of 73 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the South Shetlands, the Scotia Sea, the Ross Sea and the Antarctic Ocean; also off the South Orkneys and the South Shetlands.

References

• Lamy, E., 1910a. Mission dans l'Antarctique dirigée par M. le Dr. Charcot (1908-1910); Collections recueillies par M. le Dr. J. Liouville. Gastropodes Prosobranches et Scaphopodes. Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 16: 318-324.
• Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273-308.
• Kantor, Yuri I., and M. G. Harasewych. "Rediscovery of the Antarctic species Sipho gaini Lamy, 1910 (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda) with remarks on its taxonomic position." Antarctic Science 11.04 (1999): 430-435.
• Troncoso, Jesús S., et al. "Quantitative analysis of soft‐bottom molluscs in the Bellingshausen Sea and around Peter I Island." Polar Research 26.2 (2007): 126-134

External links

• Antarctic Invertebrates : Belaturricula gaini; accessed: 13 August 2011
• Gastropods.com: Belaturricula gaini
• Aldea & Troncoso: Systematics and distribution of shelled molluscs (Gastropoda, Bivalvia and Scaphopoda) from the South Shetlands to the Bellinghausen Sea, West Antarctica; Iberus : revista de la Sociedad Española de Malacología v.26 (2008)