Aforia watsoni

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Aforia watsoni
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Shell of Aforia watsoni (specimen at USNM)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Cochlespiridae
Genus: Aforia
Species:
A. watsoni
Binomial name
Aforia watsoni
Kantor, Harasewych & Puillandre, 2016
Aforia watsoni - distribution.jpg
Synonyms [1]
  • Aforia lepta(Watson, 1881) (invalid: junior homonym of Pleurotoma lepta Edwards, 1861; Aforia watsoni is a replacement name)
  • Marshallena lepta(Watson, 1881)
  • Pleurotoma (Surcula) leptaWatson, 1881
  • Pleurotoma leptaWatson, 1881
  • Pleurotomella (Anomalotomella) frigida(Thiele, 1912)

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

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Description

The shell grows to a length of 30 mm.

Distribution

This marine species is found off New Zealand and in the Southern Ocean, southeast of Australia; also off the Antarctic Peninsula at a depth between 210 m and 220 m.

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References

Abapertural view of a shell of Aforia watsoni Aforia watsoni 002.jpg
Abapertural view of a shell of Aforia watsoni
  1. 1 2 Bouchet, P. (2016). Aforia watsoni Kantor, Harasewych & Puillandre, 2016. In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=881117 on 2016-07-04
  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 .


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