Borsonia jaffa

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Borsonia jaffa
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Borsoniidae
Genus: Borsonia
Species:B. jaffa
Binomial name
Borsonia jaffa
Cotton, 1947

Borsonia jaffa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae. [1]

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Description

Distribution

This marine species occurs off South Australia

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References

  1. WoRMS (2015). Borsonia jaffa Cotton, 1947. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433154 on 2016-02-29