Antarctospira angusteplicata

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

Antarctospira angusteplicata
Shell of Antarctospira angusteplicata (Specimen at the Smithsonian Institution)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Borsoniidae
Genus: Antarctospira
Species:
A. angusteplicata
Binomial name
Antarctospira angusteplicata
(Strebel, 1905)
Synonyms[1]
  • Antarctospira paragenota (Powell, 1951)
  • Bela angusteplicata Strebel, 1905 (original combination)
  • Leucosyrinx angusteplicata (Strebel, 1905)
  • Leucosyrinx paragenota Powell, 1951

Description

The length of the shell attains 21 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Falkland Islands and the Strait Of Magellan, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, South Atlantic Ocean

gollark: How very mysterious.
gollark: So what are these other patterns? Just stuff like "uncommon eggs lying around will get other eggs when taken soonish"?
gollark: There's more to it than biomes and the 5-min/1-hour drops?
gollark: Patterns?
gollark: Stare into the eggy abyss long enough... and the eggs stare back...

References
  1. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Antarctospira angusteplicata (Strebel, 1905). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1329624 on 2020-03-28
  • Strebel H. (1905). Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Molluskenfauna der Magelhaen-Provinz. No. 3. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere. 22: 575-666, pls 21-24
  • Powell A. W. B. (1951). Antarctic and Subantarctic Mollusca: Pelecypoda and Gastropoda. Discovery Reports, 26: 47-196, pl. 5-10
  • Kantor Y.I., Harasewych M.G. & Puillandre N. (2016). A critical review of Antarctic Conoidea (Neogastropoda). Molluscan Research. 36(3): 153-206
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
  • Gastropods.com: Leucosyrinx paragenota
  • Gastropods.com: Leucosyrinx angusteplicata


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