Benhamina obliquata | |
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Shell of Benhamina obliquata from New Zealand at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano | |
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Genus: | Benhamina |
Species: | B. obliquata |
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Benhamina obliquata (G. B. Sowerby I, 1825) | |
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Benhamina obliquata is a species of air-breathing sea snail, a false limpet, a marine pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Siphonariidae. [2]
This species is very large compared with the other species in the family.
This is the only species in this genus; in other words, Benhamina is a monotypic genus. It is endemic to New Zealand. [3]
Generic name Benhamina is in tribute to British oligo- and polychaetologist, William Blaxland Benham. [1]
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