''Typhlodaphne paratenoceras'' is a

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of sea snail, a marine gastropod

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in the

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Borsoniidae Borsoniidae is a monophyletic family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.Bouchet, P. (2011). Borsoniidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.o ...

.MolluscaBase (2018). Typhlodaphne paratenoceras (Powell, 1951). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=881062 on 2018-11-24

Description

The length of the shell attains 43.5 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the

South Shetlands The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands with a total area of . They lie about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, and between southwest of the nearest point of the South Orkney Islands. By the Antarctic Treaty of 19 ...

; the Scotia Ridge in the

Scotia Sea The Scotia Sea is a sea located at the northern edge of the Southern Ocean at its boundary with the South Atlantic Ocean. It is bounded on the west by the Drake Passage and on the north, east, and south by the Scotia Arc, an undersea ridge and ...

; Antarctic Peninsula

References

Powell A. W. B. (1951). ''Antarctic and Subantarctic Mollusca: Pelecypoda and Gastropoda.'' Discovery Reports, 26: 47-196, pl. 5-10

External links

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Gastropods.com: ''Typhlodaphne paratenoceras''

Kantor Y.I., Harasewych M.G. & Puillandre N. (2016). A critical review of Antarctic Conoidea (Neogastropoda). Molluscan Research. 36(3): 153-206
paratenoceras Gastropods described in 1951 {{Borsoniidae-stub