''Glyptaesopus xenicus'' is a species of
sea snail, a marine
gastropod mollusk
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in the
family
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Borsoniidae.
Description
The size of an adult shell grows to a length of 6 mm to 8 mm.
Distribution
This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean from
Mexico
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to
Ecuador
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.
References
* ''Keen, A. M. 1971.'' Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Marine mollusks from Baja California to Peru, ed. 2. Stanford University Press. xv, 1064 pp., 22 pls.
External links
*
Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273–308
xenicus
''Xenicus'' is a genus of birds in the family ''Acanthisittidae''. It contains New Zealand wrens.
Species
*New Zealand rock wren, ''Xenicus gilviventris''
* Bushwren, †''Xenicus longipes'' (extinct)
Lyall's wren
Lyall's wren or the Stephe ...
Gastropods described in 1932
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