Gemmuloborsonia colorata
Gemmuloborsonia colorata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.[1][2]
| Gemmuloborsonia colorata | |
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| Shell of Gemmuloborsonia colorata (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
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] | |
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Bathytoma colorata Sysoev & Bouchet, 2001 (basionym) | |
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
- Gemmuloborsonia colorata (Sysoev & Bouchet, 2001). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 August 2011.
- 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.
External links
- Puillandre, N., C. Cruaud, and Yu I. Kantor. "Cryptic species in Gemmuloborsonia (Gastropoda: Conoidea)." Journal of Molluscan Studies 76.1 (2010): 11-23
- Bouchet, Philippe, et al. "A quarter-century of deep-sea malacological exploration in the South and West Pacific: where do we stand? How far to go." Tropical deep-sea Benthos 25 (2008): 9-40
- Specimen of Gemmuloborsonia colorata at MNHN, Paris
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