Genota nicklesi
| Genota nicklesi | |
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| Apertural view of a shell of Genota nicklesi | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Borsoniidae |
| Genus: | Genota |
| Species: | G. nicklesi
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| Binomial name | |
| Genota nicklesi Knudsen, 1952 [1]
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Genota nicklesi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.[2]
Description[edit]
The shells of most species of sea snails are spirally coiled. The length of the shell varies between 25 mm and 42 mm.
Distribution[edit]
This marine species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Angola and tropical West Africa
References[edit]
- ^ Knudsen, J. (1952). "Marine prosobranchs of tropical West Africa collected by the Atlantide Expedition, 1945–46". ' Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening i Kjobenhavn. 114: 129–185, 1 fig. 12pl.
- ^ a b WoRMS (2015). Genota mitriformis (Wood W., 1828). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433880 on 9 March 2016
External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Genota nicklesi.
- "Genota nicklesi". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.