Benthobia tryonii

Benthobia tryonii
Shell of Benthobia tryonii (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Benthobiidae
Genus:	Benthobia
Species:	B. tryonii
Binomial name
Benthobia tryonii Dall, 1889
Synonyms
Lacuna cossmanniLocard, 1897 Nux alabasterBarnard, 1960

Benthobia tryonii is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Benthobiidae. ^[1]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off the Sahara.

References

1. Benthobia tryonii Dall, 1889 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 29 April 2010.

• Sysoev A.V. (2014). Deep-sea fauna of European seas: An annotated species check-list of benthic invertebrates living deeper than 2000 m in the seas bordering Europe. Gastropoda. Invertebrate Zoology. Vol.11. No.1: 134–155
• Simone, L. R. L. (2003). Revision of the genus Benthobia (Caenogastropoda, Pseudolividae. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 69-73

External links

• Dall W.H. 1889. Reports on the results of dredging, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877–78) and in the Caribbean Sea (1879–80), by the U.S. Coast Survey Steamer "Blake", Lieut.-Commander C.D. Sigsbee, U.S.N., and Commander J.R. Bartlett, U.S.N., commanding. XXIX. Report on the Mollusca. Part 2, Gastropoda and Scaphopoda. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College, 18: 1–492, pls. 10-40
• ocard A. (1897–1898). Expéditions scientifiques du Travailleur et du Talisman pendant les années 1880, 1881, 1882 et 1883. Mollusques testacés. Paris, Masson. vol. 1 [1897], pp. 1–516 pl. 1–22; vol. 2 [1898], pp. 1–515, pl. 1–18
• Rosenberg, G.; Moretzsohn, F.; García, E. F. (2009). Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas
• Bouchet, P.; Warén, A. (1985). Revision of the Northeast Atlantic bathyal and abyssal Neogastropoda excluding Turridae (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Bollettino Malacologico. supplement 1: 121–296