Maoritomella eva

Maoritomella eva
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Borsoniidae
Genus:	Maoritomella
Species:	M. eva
Binomial name
Maoritomella eva (Thiele, 1925)
Synonyms [1]
Asthenotoma eva(Thiele, 1925) Bela evaThiele, 1925 (original combination) Tomopleura (Maoritomella) eva(Thiele, 1925)

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

Description

The height of the shell is 4.8 mm, and its width is 2.2 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Agulhas Bank, South Africa

References

1. WoRMS (2015). Maoritomella eva. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=434378 on 2016-03-13

• Thiele, J. "Gastropoda der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition II. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Dampfer "Valdivia" 1898–1899, 17, 35–382." (1925).
• R.N. Kilburn, Turridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 3. Subfamily Borsoniinae; Annals of the Natal Museum, 1986 - reference.sabinet.co.za

External links

• "Tomopleura (Maoritomella) eva". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
• Barnard K.H. (1958), Contribution to the knowledge of South African marine Mollusca. Part 1. Gastropoda; Prosobranchiata: Toxoglossa; Annals of The South African Museum v. 44 p. 73–163 (described as Asthenotoma eva )
• Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273–308