Genota nicklesi

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Genota nicklesi
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Apertural view of a shell of Genota nicklesi
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Borsoniidae
Genus: Genota
Species:
G. nicklesi
Binomial name
Genota nicklesi
Knudsen, 1952 [1]
Synonyms [2]
  • Genota marchadi [sic] (misspelling)
  • Genota marchandiPin, 1996
  • Genota nigeriensisVera-Peláez, 2004

Genota nicklesi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae. [2]

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Description

The shells of most species of sea snails are spirally coiled. The length of the shell varies between 25 mm and 42 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Angola and tropical West Africa

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References

  1. Knudsen, J. (1952). "Marine prosobranchs of tropical West Africa collected by the Atlantide Expedition, 1945–46". ' Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening i Kjobenhavn. 114: 129–185, 1 fig. 12pl.
  2. 1 2 WoRMS (2015). Genota mitriformis (Wood W., 1828). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433880 on 9 March 2016