''Babylonia perforata'' is a
species
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of
sea snail
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, a marine
gastropod
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This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusc
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in the
family
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Babyloniidae
Babyloniidae is a taxonomic family of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks unassigned within the superfamily Neogastropoda. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Babyloniidae Kuroda, Habe & Oyama, 1971. Accessed through: World R ...
.
It has been named after Italian journalist
Piero Angela
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.
Subspecies
* ''Babylonia perforata perforata'' (G.B. Sowerby II, 1870) : synonyms = ''Eburna perforata'' G.B. Sowerby II, 1870
* ''Babylonia perforata pieroangelai'' Cossigniani, 2008 : synonyms = ''
Babylonia pieroangelai'' Cossignani, 2008
Description
Distribution
References
* Sowerby, G.B. Jr. (1870). ''Descriptions of Forty-eight new Species of Shells''. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1870): 249–259
* Fraussen K. & Stratmann D. (2013) ''The family Babyloniidae''. In: G.T. Poppe & K. Groh (eds), A conchological iconography. Harxheim: Conchbooks. 96 pp., pls 1–48
* Liu J.Y.
uiyu(ed.). (2008). ''Checklist of marine biota of China seas''. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
External links
Taibnet.sinica: ''Babylonia perforata''Altena C.O. van Regteren & Gittenberger E. (1981) The genus Babylonia (Prosobranchia: Buccinidae). Zoologische Verhandelingen 188: 1–57, + 11 pls
Babyloniidae
Gastropods described in 1870
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