Borsonia ochracea
| Borsonia ochracea | |
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| Original image of a shell of Borsonia ochracea | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Clade: | Caenogastropoda |
| Clade: | Hypsogastropoda |
| Clade: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Borsoniidae |
| Genus: | Borsonia |
| Species: | B. ochracea |
| Binomial name | |
| Borsonia ochracea Thiele, 1925 | |
Borsonia ochracea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.[1]
Distribution
This marine species occurs off East Africa from Zanzibar to the Gulf of Aden at depths between 693 m and 1644 m.
References
- ↑ WoRMS (2015). Borsonia ochracea Thiele, 1925. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433156 on 2016-03-02
- Thiele, 1925. Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Dampfer Valdivia 1898-1899
- .Alexander V. Sysoev, Deep-sea conoidean gastropods collected by the John Murray Expedition, 1933-34; Bulletin of the Natural History Museum v.62 # 1 (1996)
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