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Aforia watsoni

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Species of gastropod

Aforia watsoni
Shell of Aforia watsoni (specimen at USNM)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Cochlespiridae
Genus: Aforia
Species: A. watsoni
Binomial name
Aforia watsoni
Kantor, Harasewych & Puillandre, 2016
Synonyms
  • Aforia lepta (Watson, 1881) (invalid: junior homonym of Pleurotoma lepta Edwards, 1861; Aforia watsoni is a replacement name)
  • Marshallena lepta (Watson, 1881)
  • Pleurotoma (Surcula) lepta Watson, 1881
  • Pleurotoma lepta Watson, 1881
  • Pleurotomella (Anomalotomella) frigida (Thiele, 1912)

Aforia watsoni is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cochlespiridae.

Description

The shell grows to a length of 30 mm.

This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (August 2011)

Distribution

This marine species is found off New Zealand and in the Southern Ocean, southeast of Australia; also off the Antarctic Peninsula at a depth between 210 m and 220 m.

References

Abapertural view of a shell of Aforia watsoni
  1. ^ Bouchet, P. (2016). Aforia watsoni Kantor, Harasewych & Puillandre, 2016. In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=881117 on 2016-07-04
  2. P. Bouchet; Yu. I. Kantor; A. Sysoev; N. Puillandre (2011). "A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda)". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77 (3): 273–308. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr017.
  • Watson, R.B. 1881. Mollusca of "H.M.S. Challenger" expedition. Parts VIII-X. Pleurotomidae. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 15: 388–475
  • Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213–359, pls 42–56
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1969. The family Turridae in the Indo-Pacific. Part. 2. The subfamily Turriculinae. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 2(10): 207–415, pls 188–324
  • Tucker, J.K. 2004. Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682: 1–1295

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Taxon identifiers
Aforia watsoni
Aforia lepta


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