Bathytoma gabrielae

Bathytoma gabrielae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Borsoniidae
Genus: Bathytoma
Species: B. gabrielae
Binomial name
Bathytoma gabrielae
Bozzetti, 2006 [1]

Bathytoma gabrielae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.[2]


Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 30 mm and 50 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Tanzania and Mozambique.

External links

References

  1. Bozzetti L. (2006) A new species of Bathytoma (Gastropoda: Turridae: Borsoniinae) from Southern Tanzania. Malacologia Mostra Mondiale 50: 6-7
  2. Bathytoma gabrielae Bozzetti, 2006.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 12 August 2011.


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