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Antarctospira badenpowelli

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Antarctospira badenpowelli
Shell of Antarctospira badenpowelli (specimen at the Smithsonian Institution)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Borsoniidae
Genus: Antarctospira
Species:
A. badenpowelli
Binomial name
Antarctospira badenpowelli
(Dell, 1990)
Synonyms[1]

Leucosyrinx badenpowelli Dell, 1990

Antarctospira badenpowelli is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.[1]

Description

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The length of the shell varies between 7 mm and 20 mm.

Distribution

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This species occurs off the Beauchene Island, Falkland Islands, in the South Atlantic Ocean; in the McMurdo Sound, Ross Sea, Antarctica

References

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  1. ^ a b MolluscaBase (2018). Antarctospira badenpowelli (Dell, 1990). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=881040 on 2018-11-14
  • Dell, R. K. (1990). Antarctic Mollusca with special reference to the fauna of the Ross Sea. Bulletin of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Wellington 27: 1–311 page(s): 224, figs 393, 410
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  • Kantor Y.I., Harasewych M.G. & Puillandre N. (2016). A critical review of Antarctic Conoidea (Neogastropoda). Molluscan Research. 36(3): 153-206
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
  • Gastropods.com: Leucosyrinx badenpowelli