Tomopleura oscitans

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Tomopleura oscitans
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Borsoniidae
Genus: Tomopleura
Species:
T. oscitans
Binomial name
Tomopleura oscitans
Kilburn, 1986
Synonyms [1]
  • Asthenotoma vertebrata(partim); Barnard, 1958
  • Pleurotoma vertebrata(non E. A. Smith, 1875); E. A. Smith, 1903

Tomopleura oscitans is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae. [1]

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Description

The size of the shell varies between 15 mm and 23 mm. It has 9 whorls in the teleoconch..

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Durban Bay, South Africa, to Mozambique.

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References

  1. 1 2 WoRMS (2015). Tomopleura oscitans. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=435063 on 2016-04-02
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