Antarctospira badenpowelli

Antarctospira badenpowelli
Shell of Antarctospira badenpowelli (specimen at the Smithsonian Institution)
Scientific 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 badenpowelliDell, 1990

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

Description

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

Distribution

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

References

1. 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

Bibliography

• 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

External links

• 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