Bathytoma regnans
| Bathytoma regnans | |
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| Original drawing of a shell of Bathytoma regnans | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Clade: | Caenogastropoda |
| Clade: | Hypsogastropoda |
| Clade: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Borsoniidae |
| Genus: | Bathytoma |
| Species: | B. regnans |
| Binomial name | |
| Bathytoma regnans Melvill, 1918 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Parabathytoma regnans Melvill, 1918 | |
Bathytoma regnans is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.[1]
Description
The length of the shell attains 30 mm, its diameter 12 mm.
Distribution
This species occurs in the Gulf of Aden, the Bay of Bengal and off Southern Australia.
References
- 1 2 Bathytoma regnans Melvill, 1918. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 August 2011.
- J.C. Melvill (1918), Description of Bathytoma regnans n.sp. from the Indian Ocean; Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. v. 12-13 (1916-1919)
- Alexander V. Sysoev, Deep-sea conoidean gastropods collected by the John Murray Expedition, 1933-34; Bulletin of the Natural History Museum. v.62 # 1 (1996), London
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