''Bathytoma boholica'' 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 ...
mollusk in the
family Borsoniidae
Borsoniidae is a monophyletic family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.Bouchet, P. (2011). Borsoniidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.o ...
.
[Bouchet, P. (2015). Bathytoma boholica Parth, 1994. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=549623 on 2016-02-16]
Distribution
This species occurs off the
Philippines.
Description
The length of the shell varies between 40 mm and 70 mm. It is spiral shaped with brown stripes. Not much is known about the snail.
References
Manfred Parth, .''Eine neue auffällige Turriden-Art von den Philippinen (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Turridae)''; Spixiana Bd. 17 (1994)
External links
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boholica
Gastropods described in 1994
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