Imaclava ima
| Imaclava ima | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Drilliidae |
| Genus: | Imaclava |
| Species: | I. ima |
| Binomial name | |
| Imaclava ima Bartsch, 1944 [1] | |
| Synonyms | |
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Imaclava ima, common name Ima's turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[2]
McLean (1971) considered this species to be a synonym of Imaclava unimaculata (G. B. Sowerby I, 1834) [3]
Description
The shell grows to a length of 50 mm.
Distribution
This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off Baja California, Mexico.
References
- ↑ Bartsch, P. (1944a) Some notes upon West American turrid mollusks. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 57, 25–30.
- ↑ Imaclava ima Bartsch, 1944. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 26 October 2011.
- ↑ McLean, J.H. (1971b) Family Turridae. In Keen, A.M. (Ed.) Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Marine Mollusks from Baja California to Peru. Second Edition. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, pp. 686–766.
- Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.
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