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| Original drawing of two shells of Borsonia symbiotes | |
Scientific classification  | |
| 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] | |
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Borsonia symbiotes is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae. [1]
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.
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This marine species occurs off the Laccadives and off East India, Malaya and Indonesia.
James Wood-Mason was an English zoologist. He was the director of the Indian Museum at Calcutta, after John Anderson. He collected marine animals and lepidoptera, but is best known for his work on two other groups of insects, phasmids and mantids.
Alfred William Alcock was a British physician, naturalist, and carcinologist.
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