''Aforia watsoni'' is a species of

sea snail Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...

, a marine

gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...

mollusc Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is esti ...

in the family

Cochlespiridae Cochlespiridae is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic family (biology), family of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea. This family is not well differentiated morphologically, and there is poor congruence betwe ...

.Bouchet, P. (2016). Aforia watsoni Kantor, Harasewych & Puillandre, 2016. In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=881117 on 2016-07-04

Description

The shell grows to a length of 30 mm.

Distribution

This marine species is found off New Zealand and in the Southern Ocean, southeast of Australia; also off the Antarctic Peninsula at a depth between 210 m and 220 m.

References

* Watson, R.B. 1881. ''Mollusca of "H.M.S. Challenger" expedition. Parts VIII-X. Pleurotomidae''. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 15: 388–475 * Hedley, C. 1922. ''A revision of the Australian Turridae''. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213–359, pls 42–56 * Powell, A.W.B. 1969. ''The family Turridae in the Indo-Pacific. Part. 2. The subfamily Turriculinae''. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 2(10): 207–415, pls 188–324 * Tucker, J.K. 2004. ''Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)''. Zootaxa 682: 1–1295

External links

Kantor Y.I., Harasewych M.G. & Puillandre N. (2016). ''A critical review of Antarctic Conoidea (Neogastropoda).'' Molluscan Research. DOI: 10.1080/13235818.2015.1128523
watsoni Gastropods described in 2016 {{Cochlespiridae-stub