Bolma sabinae

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Bolma sabinae
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Turbinidae
Genus: Bolma
Species:
B. sabinae
Binomial name
Bolma sabinae
Alf & Kreipl, 2004 [1]

Bolma sabinae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails. [2]

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Description

The height of the shell attains 16.2 mm, its diameter 19.1 mm. The coniform shell consists of five whorls and resembles Bolma minutiradiosa Kosuge, 1983, but the thick columellar and umbilical callus is red-stained. [3]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Madagascar.

References

  1. Alf & Kreipl. 2004. Spixiana 27(2) : 183–184|20 April 2010
  2. Bolma sabinae Alf & Kreipl, 2004 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 20 April 2010.
  3. Kreipl, Kurt; Alf, Axel; Eggeling, Tilo (21 December 2006). "A new species of Semicassis Mörch 1852 from Central Vietnam (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Tonnoidea: Cassidae)" . Archiv für Molluskenkunde. 135 (2): 263–266. doi:10.1127/arch.moll/0003-9284/135/263-266. ISSN   0003-9284.