Borsonia symbiotes

Borsonia symbiotes
Original drawing of two shells of Borsonia symbiotes
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Borsoniidae
Genus:	Borsonia
Species:	B. symbiotes
Binomial name
Borsonia symbiotes (Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891)
Synonyms [1]
Benthovoluta nakayasuiHabe, 1976 Comitas symbiotes(Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891) Pleurotoma symbiotesWood-Mason & Alcock, 1891 (original combination) Surcula symbiotes(Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891)

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

Description

The height of the shell attains 70 mm. The shell is remarkable for its peculiar glistening white outer layer, with which it is most beautifully contrasted the pale cinnamon interior.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Laccadives and off East India, Malaya and Indonesia.

References

1. Bouchet, P. (2015). Borsonia symbiotes (Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=827410 on 2016-03-02

• Wood-Mason & Alcock. Natural history notes from H.M. Indian Marine Survey Steamer ‘Investigator,’ Commander R. F. Hoskyn, R.N., commanding.—Series II., No. 1. On the results of deep-sea dredging during the season 1890–91; Annals And Magazine of Natural History Ser. 6, Vol. VIII, 1891, p. 444, fig. 13a, b
• Smith. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 6, Vol. XIV, 1894, p. 161, PI. 3, fig. 7, 8
• Schepman, 1913. The prosobranchia of the Siboga expedition. Part IV -V - VI: Toxoglossa; p. 421
• .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)

External links

• "Comitas symbiotes". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.