Belaturricula gaini explained
Belaturricula gaini is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.
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
- Kantor, Yuri I., Myroslaw G. Harasewych, and Nicolas Puillandre. "A critical review of Antarctic Conoidea (Neogastropoda)." Molluscan Research 36.3 (2016): 153–206.
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