Buchema tainoa explained

Buchema tainoa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Horaiclavidae.

It was formerly included within the family Turridae.^[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 14.2 mm, its diameter 5.9 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Puerto Rico.

References

• Corea, Lois Fleming. "New marine mollusks (with three plates)." (1934)
• Bartsch, P. (1934) Reports on the collections obtained by the first Johnson-Smithsonian deep-sea expedition to the Puerto Rican deep; new mollusks of the family Turritidae. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 91, 1–29, 8 pls

External links

• Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.

Notes and References

1. Bouchet, P. (2015). Buchema tainoa (Corea, 1934). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=596474 on 2017-01-04