Benhamina obliquata

Benhamina obliquata
Shell of Benhamina obliquata from New Zealand at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
Superfamily: Siphonarioidea
Family: Siphonariidae
Genus: Benhamina
Finlay, 1926[1]
Species: B. obliquata
Binomial name
Benhamina obliquata
(G. B. Sowerby I, 1825)
Synonyms

Siphonaria obliquata Sowerby, 1825

Benhamina obliquata is a species of air-breathing sea snail, a false limpet, a marine pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Siphonariidae.

This species is very large compared with the other species in the family.

This is the only species in this genus; in other words, Benhamina is a monotypic genus. It is endemic to New Zealand.[2]

Generic name Benhamina is in tribute to British oligo- and polychaetologist, William Blaxland Benham.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Finlay H. J. (23 December) 1926. A Further Commentary on New Zealand Molluscan Systematics]. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Volume 57, 1927, 320-485.
  2. Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1

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