Bathytoma prodicia
| Bathytoma prodicia | |
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| Apertural view of a shell of Bathytoma prodicia | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Borsoniidae |
| Genus: | Bathytoma |
| Species: | B. prodicia
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| Binomial name | |
| Bathytoma prodicia Kilburn, 1986
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Parabathytoma prodicia Kilburn, 1986 | |
Bathytoma prodicia is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.[1]
Description[edit]
The size of an adult shell varies between 35 mm and 55 mm.
Distribution[edit]
This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off East and South Africa (Southern Mozambique to Zanzibar)
References[edit]
- ^ a b Bathytoma prodicia Kilburn, 1986. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 August 2011.
External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bathytoma prodicia.
- "Parabathytoma prodicia". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 13 August 2011.
- Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273-308.
- Alexander V. Sysoev, Deep-sea conoidean gastropods collected by the John Murray Expedition, 1933-34; Bulletin of the Natural History Museum. v.62 # 1 (1996), London