Bolma recens

Bolma recens is a large sea snail with a calcareous operculum, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.[1]

Subspecies
  • Bolma recens clemenceae Bozzetti, 2010
  • Bolma recens recens (Dell, 1967)

Bolma recens
Shell of Bolma recens (holotype of Bolma recens clemenceae at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Turbinidae
Genus: Bolma
Species:
B. recens
Binomial name
Bolma recens
Dell, 1967
Synonyms[1]
  • Bolma clemenceae Bozzetti, 2010
  • Bolma (Bolma) clemenceae Bozzetti, L., 2010
  • Bolma (Ormastralium) recens (Dell, 1967)
  • Incilaster recens Dell, 1967 (original combination)

Distribution

This species is known to occur in deep water on the Kiwi Seamount, north of New Zealand; also off Madagascar.

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References
  1. Marshall, B.; Gofas, S. (2014). Bolma recens (Dell, 1967). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=555222 on 2014-08-17
  • Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
  • Location of Kiwi Seamount in the Pacific
  • Dell, R.K. 1967. Some Mollusca from deep water to the north of New Zealand, collected by the Tui, 1962. Records of the Dominion Museum 5: 305-315.
  • Bozzetti, L., 2010. Bolma clemenceae (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda: Turbinidae: Astraeinae) dal Madagascar meridionale. Malacologia Mostra Mondiale 69: 11-12


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