Gemmuloborsonia neocaledonica
Gemmuloborsonia neocaledonica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.[1][2]
| Gemmuloborsonia neocaledonica | |
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| Shell of Gemmuloborsonia neocaledonica (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. neocaledonica |
| Binomial name | |
| Gemmuloborsonia neocaledonica Sysoev & Bouchet, 1996 | |
Description
The length of the shell attains 30.3 mm, its diameter 10.6 mm.
Distribution
This marine species occurs at depths up to 710 m off New Caledonia, the Loyalty Islands and the southern New Hebrides.
References
- Gemmuloborsonia neocaledonica Sysoev & Bouchet, 1996. 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
- Sysoev, Alexander, and Philippe Bouchet. "Taxonomic reevaluation of Gemmuloborsonia Shuto, 1989 (Gastropoda: Conoidea), with a description of new Recent deep-water species." Journal of Molluscan Studies 62.1 (1996): 75-87
- 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
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