Bathytoma luehdorfi

Bathytoma luehdorfi
Bathytoma luehdorfi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Clade:	Caenogastropoda
Clade:	Hypsogastropoda
Clade:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Borsoniidae
Genus:	Bathytoma
Species:	B. luehdorfi
Binomial name
Bathytoma luehdorfi (Lischke, 1872)
Synonyms[1]
Genotia luhdorfi Lischke, 1872 Parabathytoma luhdorfi (Lischke, 1872) Pleurotoma luehdorfi Lischke, 1872

Bathytoma luehdorfi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.^[1]

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 30 mm and 70 mm. The shell is yellowish brown. The shoulder is concavely flattened, with a crenulated margin next the suture, and a tuberculate periphery. The surface shows spiral, white, distant sulci, and incremental striae. The white revolving sulci on the brownish surface are very distinctive in this species. The aperture is white.^[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean between Japan and the Philippines

External links

• Gastropods.com : Bathytoma luehdorfi; accessed: 13 August 2011.

References

1. Bathytoma luehdorfi (Lischke, 1872).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 August 2011.
2. G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences

• Asakura, A. 2001. A revision of the hermit crabs of the genera Catapagurus A. Milne-Edwards and Hemipagurus Smith from the Indo-West Pacific (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Paguridae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 15: 823-89