Bathytoma murdochi

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Bathytoma murdochi
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Borsoniidae
Genus: Bathytoma
Species:B. murdochi
Binomial name
Bathytoma murdochi
Finlay, 1930
Synonyms [1]
  • Bathytoma murdochi murdochi(Finlay, 1930)
  • Bathytoma (Micantapex) murdochi murdochi, Beu & Maxwell 1990
  • Micantapex finlayiPowell, 1940
  • Pleurotoma tuberculataKirk 1882 (preoccupied, replaced by Pleurotoma (Hemipleurotoma) nodilirataMurdoch & Suter 1906)
  • Pleurotoma (Hemipleurotoma) nodilirataMurdoch & Suter 1906 (also preoccupied; replaced by Bathytoma murdochiFinlay 1930)

Bathytoma murdochi is a recent and fossil species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae. [1]

Sea snail common name for snails that normally live in saltwater

Sea snail is a common name for snails that normally live in salt water, in other words marine gastropods. The taxonomic class Gastropoda also includes snails that live in other habitats, such as land snails and freshwater snails. Many species of sea snails are edible and exploited as food sources by humans.

Family is one of the eight major hierarcical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy; it is classified between order and genus. A family may be divided into subfamilies, which are intermediate ranks between the ranks of family and genus. The official family names are Latin in origin; however, popular names are often used: for example, walnut trees and hickory trees belong to the family Juglandaceae, but that family is commonly referred to as being the "walnut family".

Borsoniidae family of molluscs

Borsoniidae is a monophyletic family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.

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Distribution

This marine species occurs off New Zealand and Tasmania

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Tasmania island state of Australia

Tasmania is an island state of Australia. It is located 240 km (150 mi) to the south of the Australian mainland, separated by Bass Strait. The state encompasses the main island of Tasmania, the 26th-largest island in the world, and the surrounding 334 islands. The state has a population of around 526,700 as of March 2018. Just over forty percent of the population resides in the Greater Hobart precinct, which forms the metropolitan area of the state capital and largest city, Hobart.

Description

The height of the biconic shell varies between 23 mm and 27 mm.

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References

  1. 1 2 Marshall, B.; Rosenberg, G. (2015). Bathytoma murdochi Finlay, 1930. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=598991 on 2016-02-14


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