Bolma recens
| Bolma recens | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Clade: | Vetigastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea (superfamily) |
| Family: | Turbinidae |
| Genus: | Bolma |
| Species: | B. recens |
| Binomial name | |
| Bolma recens Dell, 1967 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Bolma recens is a large sea snail with a calcareous operculum, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails. [1]
Distribution
This species is known to occur only in deep water on the Kiwi Seamount, north of New Zealand.
References
- 1 2 Marshall, B.; Gofas, S. (2014). Bolma recens (Dell, 1967). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=555222 on 2014-08-17
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
- Location of Kiwi Seamount in the Pacific
- Dell, R.K. 1967. Some Mollusca from deep water to the north of New Zealand, collected by the Tui, 1962. Records of the Dominion Museum 5: 305-315.
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