Antiplanes diomedea

Antiplanes diomedea
Shell of Antiplanes diomedea (holotype at the Smithsonian Institution)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Antiplanes
Species:	A. diomedea
Binomial name
Antiplanes diomedea Bartsch, 1944
Synonyms [1]
Antiplanes diomedia [sic] (misspelling)

Antiplanes diomedea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae. ^[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 40.2 mm, its diameter 15.8 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off California, United States.

References

1. Antiplanes diomedea Bartsch, 1944 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 31 March 2010.

• Abbott R. T. (1974). American seashells. The marine Mollusca of the Atlantic and Pacific coast of North America. ed. 2. Van Nostrand, New York. 663 pp., 24 pls

External links

• Bartsch, P, Some turrid mollusks of Monterey Bay and vicinity; Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, v. 57 pp. 57–68
• Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
• "Antiplanes diomedea". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.