Belaturricula ergata
Belaturricula ergata | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Clade: | Caenogastropoda |
Clade: | Hypsogastropoda |
Clade: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Borsoniidae |
Genus: | Belaturricula |
Species: | B. ergata |
Binomial name | |
Belaturricula ergata (Hedley, 1916) | |
Synonyms[1] | |
Pontiothauma ergata Hedley, 1916 |
Belaturricula ergata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.[1]
Description
The length of the shell attains 32 mm.
Distribution
This species occurs in the Antarctic waters of the Scotia Sea. [2] and the Weddell Sea.
External links
- 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)
- Aldea, Cristian, Celia Olabarria, and Jesús S. Troncoso. "Spatial patterns of benthic diversity in molluscs from West Antarctica." Antarctic Science 21.04 (2009): 341-353.
- Troncoso, Jesús S., and Cristian Aldea. "Macrobenthic mollusc assemblages and diversity in the West Antarctica from the South Shetland Islands to the Bellingshausen Sea." Polar Biology 31.10 (2008): 1253-1265
- Schiaparelli, Stefano, Anne-Nina Lörz, and Riccardo Cattaneo-Vietti. "Diversity and distribution of mollusc assemblages on the Victoria Land coast and the Balleny Islands, Ross Sea, Antarctica." Antarctic Science 18.04 (2006): 615-631
References
- 1 2 Belaturricula ergata (Hedley, 1916). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 8 August 2011.
- ↑ Antarctic Invertebrates: Belaturricula ergata; accessed : 13 August 2011
- Hedley, C., 1916. Mollusca. Australian Antarctic Expedition, Ser. C, Zoology and Botany, 4 (1): 1-80.
- Engl W. (2012) Shells of Antarctica. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 402 pp.
- Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273-308.
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