Belomitra quadruplex

Belomitra quadruplex is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Belomitridae, the whelks.[1]

Belomitra quadruplex
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Belomitridae
Genus: Belomitra
Species:
B. quadruplex
Binomial name
Belomitra quadruplex
(Watson, 1882)
Synonyms[1]
  • Bela guernei Dautzenberg, 1891
  • Belomitra fischeri Locard, 1897
  • Belomitra lyrata Locard, 1897
  • Belomitra paradoxa P. Fischer, 1883
  • Belomitra spelta Locard, 1897
  • Clionella conspicienda Locard, 1897
  • Clionella delicatulina Locard, 1897
  • Jumala brychia Verrill & Smith in Verrill, 1885
  • Mangelia climakis (Watson, 1886)
  • Oenopota brychia (Verrill & Smith in Verrill, 1885)
  • Oenopota conspicienda (Locard, 1897)
  • Oenopota lyrata (Locard, 1897)
  • Oenopota spelta (Locard, 1897)
  • Pleurotoma climakis Watson, 1886
  • Pleurotoma quadruplex Watson, 1882

Description

The shell size varies between 10 mm and 41 mm

Distribution

This species is distributed in European waters, the Atlantic Ocean off the Azores and off New England, United States.

References
  1. Belomitra quadruplex (Watson, 1882). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 2 January 2011.
  • Locard, A., 1897 Mollusques testacés. In: Expéditions scientifiques du Travailleur et du Talisman pendant les années 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883, vol. 1, p. 516 p, 22 pls
  • Bouchet P. & Warén A. (1985). Revision of the Northeast Atlantic bathyal and abyssal Neogastropoda excluding Turridae (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Bollettino Malacologico Suppl. 1: 121-296


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