Belaturricula turrita

Belaturricula gaini
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Borsoniidae
Genus: Belaturricula
Species: B. gaini
Binomial name
Belaturricula gaini
(Strebel, 1908)
Synonyms[1]

Bela turrita Strebel, 1908

Belaturricula turrita is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.[1]

There are two subspecies :

Description

The length of the shell varies between 25 mm and 60 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Antarctic waters of the Scotia Sea and off the South Shetlands, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands

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