''Bayerotrochus indicus'' is a species of large

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

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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

Pleurotomariidae Pleurotomariidae, common name the "slit snails", is a family of large marine gastropods in the superfamily Pleurotomarioidea of the subclass Vetigastropoda. This family is a very ancient lineage; there were numerous species in the geological pas ...

, the slit snails.Bouchet, P. (2012). ''Bayerotrochus indicus'' (Anseeuw, 1999). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=467981 on 2013-02-16

Description

The shell grows to a length of 75 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the

Andaman Sea The Andaman Sea (historically also known as the Burma Sea) is a marginal sea of the northeastern Indian Ocean bounded by the coastlines of Myanmar and Thailand along the Gulf of Martaban and west side of the Malay Peninsula, and separated from ...

References

* Anseeuw, P., 1999. ''Perotrochus indicus a new species of pleurotomariid from India''. Gloria Maris 37(5-6): 88-95

External links

To Encyclopedia of Life

To World Register of Marine Species
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MNHN, Paris: holotype
Pleurotomariidae Gastropods described in 1999 {{Pleurotomariidae-stub