Tomopleura nivea
| Tomopleura nivea | |
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| Two images of a shell of Tomopleura nivea (museum specimens at Naturalis Biodiversity Center) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Clade: | Caenogastropoda |
| Clade: | Hypsogastropoda |
| Clade: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Borsoniidae |
| Genus: | Tomopleura |
| Species: | T. nivea |
| Binomial name | |
| Tomopleura nivea (Philippi, 1851) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Tomopleura nivea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.[1]
Description
The size of the shell varies between 15 mm and 30 mm.
Distribution
This marine species occurs off Durban Bay, South Africa, to Mozambique; and off Japan
References
- 1 2 WoRMS (2015). Tomopleura nivea. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=435062 on 2016-04-02
- Kilburn R.N. (1986). Turridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 3. Subfamily Borsoniinae. Annals of the Natal Museum. 27: 633-720.
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