Bathytoma tippetti

Bathytoma tippetti
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Borsoniidae
Genus: Bathytoma
Species:
B. tippetti
Binomial name
Bathytoma tippetti
Vera-Peláez, 2004

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

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 35 mm and 50 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Philippines.

References

  • Vera-Pelaez. 2004, Contribution al conocimiento del genero Bathytoma Harris & Burrows, 1891 (Gastropoda, Turridae, Borsoniinae) en Japon, Taiwan y Filipinas con la description de tres especies nuevas; Pliocenica, 4 : 107-125
  • Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273-308.[link removed]
  • Puillandre N., Sysoev A.V., Olivera B.M., Couloux A. & Bouchet P. (2010) Loss of planktotrophy and speciation: geographical fragmentation in the deep-water gastropod genus Bathytoma (Gastropoda, Conoidea) in the western Pacific. Biodiversity and Systematics 8(3): 371-394. page(s): 379
  • "Bathytoma tippetti". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 13 August 2011.
  • MNHN, Paris: Bathytoma tippetti