Belomitra quadruplex

Belomitra quadruplex
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Buccinoidea
Family:	Buccinidae
Genus:	Belomitra
Species:	B. quadruplex
Binomial name
*Belomitra quadruplex* (Watson, 1882)
Synonyms^[1]
Bela guernei Dautzenberg, 1891 Belomitra fischeri Locard, 1897 Belomitra lyrata Locard, 1897 Belomitra paradoxa P. Fischer, 1883 Belomitra spelta Locard, 1897 Clionella conspicienda Locard, 1897 Clionella delicatulina Locard, 1897 Jumala brychia Verrill & Smith in Verrill, 1885 Mangelia climakis (Watson, 1886) Oenopota brychia (Verrill & Smith in Verrill, 1885) Oenopota conspicienda (Locard, 1897) Oenopota lyrata (Locard, 1897) Oenopota spelta (Locard, 1897) Pleurotoma climakis Watson, 1886 Pleurotoma quadruplex Watson, 1882

Belomitra quadruplex is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.^[1]

Description

The shell size varies between 10 mm and 41 mm

Distribution

This species is distributed ijn European waters, the Atlantic Ocean along the Azores and off New England, USA

References

1 2 Belomitra quadruplex (Watson, 1882). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 2 January 2011.

Bouchet P. & Warén A. (1985). Revision of the Northeast Atlantic bathyal and abyssal Neogastropoda excluding Turridae (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Bollettino Malacologico Suppl. 1: 121-296

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