Troschelia berniciensis | |
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Shell of Troschelia berniciensis (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Buccinidae |
Genus: | Troschelia |
Species: | T. berniciensis |
Binomial name | |
Troschelia berniciensis (King, 1846) | |
Synonyms | |
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Troschelia berniciensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks. [1]
The length of the shell attains 100.2 mm.
(Described as Buccinofusus berniciensis) The whorls are encircled with alternately larger and smaller revolving ridges, decussated by fine growth-lines. The margin of the outer lip is slightly everted. The shell is thin, white and covered with a very thin, light olive epidermis. [2]
The shape of the shell is variable in height and in height-to-breadth ratios, depending on the depth of occurrence and the latitude. [3]
This species occurs in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean in deep water between 400 and 1600 m from the Morocco coast to Norway.
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