''Retimohnia sordida'' 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 ...
mollusc
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is esti ...
in the
family Retimohniidae
The Retimohniidae are taxonomic family in the superfamily Buccinoidea of large sea snails, often known as whelk
Whelk (also known as scungilli) is a common name applied to various kinds of sea snail. Although a number of whelks are relati ...
, the true whelks.
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Retimohniidae
Gastropods described in 1907
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