''Turbonilla musorstom'' is a
species
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of
sea snail
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, a
marine
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gastropod
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This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk
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in the
family
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Pyramidellidae
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, the pyrams and their allies.
[Bouchet, P. (2010). ''Turbonilla musorstom'' Peñas & Rolán, 2010. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: ]World Register of Marine Species
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at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=475452 on 2012-04-21
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specific name Specific name may refer to:
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''musorstom'' is the acronym for the joint expeditions by the
Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle
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(‘Mus.’) and the
Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique Outre-Mer (‘Orstom’).
Description
The shell grows to a length of 3.6 mm.
Distribution
This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off the
Solomons and
Fiji
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.
See also
Other species with acronym names:
*
AEECL's sportive lemur
* ''Turbonilla musorstom''
* ''
Klossiella quimrensis
''Klossiella quimrensis'' is a parasite of an Australian marsupial: the western barred bandicoot (''Perameles bougainville'').
It causes renal coccidiosis in its host.
Its specific name, ''quimrensis'' (Latin for ‘of QIMR’), refers to the Qu ...
''
References
External links
To Encyclopedia of LifeTo World Register of Marine Species
musorstom
Gastropods described in 2010
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