Antiplanes vinosa

Antiplanes vinosa
Shell of Antiplanes vinosa (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. vinosa
Binomial name
Antiplanes vinosa (Dall, 1874)
Synonyms [1]
Antiplanes contraria(Yokoyama, 1926) Antiplanes kamchaticaDall, 1919 † Pleurotoma contrariaYokoyama, 1926 Pleurotoma vinosaDall, 1874 Pleurotoma (Antiplanes) vinosaDall, 1874

Antiplanes vinosa, common name the left-handed turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae. ^[1]

Description

The length of this sinistral shell attains 30 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Aleutians and Northern Japan.

References

1. Antiplanes vinosa (Dall, 1874) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 31 March 2010.

• Dall, W.H. (1874a) Catalogue of Shells from Bering Strait and the Adjacent Portions of the Arctic Ocean, with Descriptions of Three New Species. 7 pp.
• Hasegawa K. (2009) Upper bathyal gastropods of the Pacific coast of northern Honshu, Japan, chiefly collected by R/V Wakataka-maru. In: T. Fujita (ed.), Deep-sea fauna and pollutants off Pacific coast of northern Japan. National Museum of Nature and Science Monographs 39: 225–383

External links

• Specimen at MNHN, Paris
• 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 vinosa". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.