Belaturricula gaini

Belaturricula gaini
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Borsoniidae
Genus:	Belaturricula
Species:	B. gaini
Binomial name
Belaturricula gaini (Lamy, 1910)
Synonyms [1]
Belaturricula antarcticaDell, 1990 Sipho gainiLamy, 1910 (original combination)

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

Description

The shell grows to a length of 73 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the South Shetlands, the Scotia Sea, the Ross Sea and the Antarctic Ocean; also off the South Orkneys and the South Shetlands.

References

1. Belaturricula gaini (Lamy, 1910) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 8 August 2011.

• Lamy, E., 1910a. Mission dans l'Antarctique dirigée par M. le Dr. Charcot (1908–1910); Collections recueillies par M. le Dr. J. Liouville. Gastropodes Prosobranches et Scaphopodes. Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 16: 318–324.
• Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273–308.
• Kantor, Yuri I., and M. G. Harasewych. "Rediscovery of the Antarctic species Sipho gaini Lamy, 1910 (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda) with remarks on its taxonomic position." Antarctic Science 11.04 (1999): 430–435.
• Troncoso, Jesús S., et al. "Quantitative analysis of soft-bottom molluscs in the Bellingshausen Sea and around Peter I Island." Polar Research 26.2 (2007): 126–134
• Kantor, Yuri I., Myroslaw G. Harasewych, and Nicolas Puillandre. "A critical review of Antarctic Conoidea (Neogastropoda)." Molluscan Research 36.3 (2016): 153–206.

External links

• Antarctic Invertebrates : Belaturricula gaini; accessed: 13 August 2011
• "Belaturricula gaini". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
• Aldea & Troncoso: Systematics and distribution of shelled molluscs (Gastropoda, Bivalvia and Scaphopoda) from the South Shetlands to the Bellinghausen Sea, West Antarctica; Iberus : revista de la Sociedad Española de Malacología v.26 (2008)