''Belalora weirichi'' 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 Mangeliidae.
[Bouchet, P. (2016). Belalora weirichi (Engl, 2008). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=881068 on 2017-11-23]
Description
Distribution
This marine species occurs on the Abyssal Plain, off
Antarctica
References
* Engl W. (2008) ''Oenopota weirichi n. sp., the first bathyal-abyssal Oenopota from the Antarctic (Mollusca, Gastropoda: Turridae)''. Antarctic Mollusks, Part 10. Club Conchylia Informationen, 39(3-4): 49–53
* Engl, W. (2012). Shells of Antarctica. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 402 pp.
External links
Kantor Y.I., Harasewych M.G. & Puillandre N. (2016). A critical review of Antarctic Conoidea (Neogastropoda). Molluscan Research. 36(3): 153–206
weirichi
Gastropods described in 2008
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