Genota nicklesi
| Genota nicklesi | |
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| Apertural view of a shell of Genota nicklesi | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Clade: | Caenogastropoda |
| Clade: | Hypsogastropoda |
| Clade: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Borsoniidae |
| Genus: | Genota |
| Species: | G. nicklesi |
| Binomial name | |
| Genota nicklesi Knudsen, 1952 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Genota nicklesi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.[1]
Description
The length of the shell varies between 25 mm and 42 mm.
Distribution
This marine species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Angola and tropical West Africa
References
- 1 2 WoRMS (2015). Genota mitriformis (Wood W., 1828). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433880 on 2016-03-09
- Knudsen, J. (1952) Marine prosobranchs of tropical West Africa collected by the Atlantide Expedition, 1945–46. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening i Kjobenhavn, 114, 129–185, 3 pls. page(s): 176, pl. 1 fig. 12
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