Aforia magnifica

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Aforia magnifica
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Shell of Aforia magnifica (specimen at the Smithsonian Institution)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Cochlespiridae
Genus: Aforia
Species:
A. magnifica
Binomial name
Aforia magnifica
(Strebel, 1908)
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Synonyms [1]
  • Danilacarina elenaeBozzetti, 1997
  • Surcula magnificaStrebel, 1908

Aforia magnifica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cochlespiridae. [1] [2]

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Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 40 mm and 150 mm. The radula has a large-based unicuspid central tooth. [3]

Distribution

This species is found off the South Sandwich Islands, the South Orkneys, South Shetland, the Antarctic Peninsula and the Weddell Sea, Antarctica

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References

  1. 1 2 Aforia magnifica (Strebel, 1908) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 29 August 2011.
  2. ↑ 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 .
  3. ↑ Indo-Pacific mollusca; Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Department of Mollusks; v.1 = no. 5–8 (1964) p. 290


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