Gemmuloborsonia colorata

Gemmuloborsonia colorata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Clavatulidae
Genus: Gemmuloborsonia
Species: G. colorata
Binomial name
Gemmuloborsonia colorata
(Sysoev & Bouchet, 2001)
Synonyms[1]

Bathytoma colorata Sysoev & Bouchet, 2001 (basionym)

Gemmuloborsonia colorata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.[1][2]

Description

The length of the shell attains 45.5 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs at depths between 490 m and 550 m off Vanuatu, New Caledonia, in the Coral Sea and French Polynesia. It has also been found in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar and Réunion.

References

  1. 1 2 Gemmuloborsonia colorata (Sysoev & Bouchet, 2001).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 August 2011.
  2. P. Bouchet; Yu. I. Kantor; A. Sysoev; N. Puillandre (2011). "A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda)". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77 (3): 273–308. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr017.


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