Belaturricula turrita

Belaturricula turrita
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Borsoniidae
Genus:	Belaturricula
Species:	B. turrita
Binomial name
Belaturricula turrita (Strebel, 1908)
Synonyms [1]
Bela turritaStrebel, 1908

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

There are two subspecies :

• Belaturricula turrita multispiralisDell, 1990
• Belaturricula turrita turrita(Strebel, 1908): represented as Belaturricula turrita(Strebel, 1908)

Description

The length of the shell varies between 25 and 60 millimetres (0.98 and 2.36 in).

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Antarctic Ocean waters of the Scotia Sea and off the South Shetlands, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands

References

1. Belaturricula turrita (Strebel, 1908) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 8 August 2011.

• Strebel, H., 1908. Die Gastropoden (mit Ausnahme de nackten Opisthobranchier). Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Schwedischen Süd-polar-Expedition 1901–1903, 6 (1):1–111, 6 pls.
• 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., 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 turrita; accessed : 13 August 2011
• Schiaparelli, Stefano, Anne-Nina Lörz, and Riccardo Cattaneo-Vietti. "Diversity and distribution of mollusc assemblages on the Victoria Land coast and the Balleny Islands, Ross Sea, Antarctica." Antarctic Science 18.04 (2006): 615–631
• "Belaturricula turrita turrita". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
• "Belaturricula turrita multispiralis". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.