Belaturricula ergata

Belaturricula ergata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Clade:	Caenogastropoda
Clade:	Hypsogastropoda
Clade:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Borsoniidae
Genus:	Belaturricula
Species:	B. ergata
Binomial name
Belaturricula ergata (Hedley, 1916)
Synonyms[1]
Pontiothauma ergata Hedley, 1916

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

Description

The length of the shell attains 32 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Antarctic waters of the Scotia Sea.^[2] and the Weddell Sea.

External links

• Aldea & Troncoso: Systematics and distribution of shelled molluscs (Gastropoda, Bivalvia and Scaphopoda) from the South Shetlands to the Bellinghausen Sea, West Antarctica; Iberus : revista de la Sociedad Española de Malacología v.26 (2008)
• Aldea, Cristian, Celia Olabarria, and Jesús S. Troncoso. "Spatial patterns of benthic diversity in molluscs from West Antarctica." Antarctic Science 21.04 (2009): 341-353.
• Troncoso, Jesús S., and Cristian Aldea. "Macrobenthic mollusc assemblages and diversity in the West Antarctica from the South Shetland Islands to the Bellingshausen Sea." Polar Biology 31.10 (2008): 1253-1265
• Schiaparelli, Stefano, Anne-Nina Lörz, and Riccardo Cattaneo-Vietti. "Diversity and distribution of mollusc assemblages on the Victoria Land coast and the Balleny Islands, Ross Sea, Antarctica." Antarctic Science 18.04 (2006): 615-631
• MNHN, Paris: Belaturricula ergata

References

• Hedley, C., 1916. Mollusca. Australian Antarctic Expedition, Ser. C, Zoology and Botany, 4 (1): 1-80.
• Engl W. (2012) Shells of Antarctica. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 402 pp.
• Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273-308.