Borsonia ochracea

Borsonia ochracea
Original image of a shell of Borsonia ochracea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Borsoniidae
Genus:	Borsonia
Species:	B. ochracea
Binomial name
Borsonia ochracea Thiele, 1925

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

Distribution

This marine species occurs off East Africa from Zanzibar to the Gulf of Aden at depths between 693 m and 1644 m.

References

1. WoRMS (2015). Borsonia ochracea Thiele, 1925. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433156 on 2016-03-02

• Thiele, 1925. Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Dampfer Valdivia 1898-1899
• .Alexander V. Sysoev, Deep-sea conoidean gastropods collected by the John Murray Expedition, 1933-34; Bulletin of the Natural History Museum v.62 # 1 (1996)