Antiplanes vinosa

Antiplanes vinosa
Original image of a shell of Antiplanes vinosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Gastropoda
Clade:Caenogastropoda
Clade:Hypsogastropoda
Clade:Neogastropoda
Superfamily:Conoidea
Family:Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:Antiplanes
Species: A. vinosa
Binomial name
Antiplanes vinosa
(Dall, 1874)
Synonyms[1]
  • Antiplanes contraria (Yokoyama, 1926)
  • Antiplanes kamchatica Dall, 1919
  • † Pleurotoma contraria Yokoyama, 1926
  • Pleurotoma vinosa Dall, 1874
  • Pleurotoma (Antiplanes) vinosa Dall, 1874

Antiplanes vinosa, common name the left-handed turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.[1]

Description

The length of this sinistral shell attains 30 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Aleutians and Northern Japan.

References

  1. 1 2 Antiplanes vinosa (Dall, 1874).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 31 March 2010.
  • Dall, W.H. (1874a) Catalogue of Shells from Bering Strait and the Adjacent Portions of the Arctic Ocean, with Descriptions of Three New Species. 7 pp.
  • Hasegawa K. (2009) Upper bathyal gastropods of the Pacific coast of northern Honshu, Japan, chiefly collected by R/V Wakataka-maru. In: T. Fujita (ed.), Deep-sea fauna and pollutants off Pacific coast of northern Japan. National Museum of Nature and Science Monographs 39: 225-383
  • Specimen at MNHN, Paris
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
  • Gastropods.com: Antiplanes vinosa


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