Belaturricula turrita

Belaturricula turrita is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.

There are two subspecies :

• Belaturricula turrita multispiralis <small>Dell, 1990</small>
• Belaturricula turrita turrita <small>(Strebel, 1908)</small>: represented as Belaturricula turrita <small>(Strebel, 1908)</small>

Description

The length of the shell varies between .

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Antarctic Ocean waters of the Scotia Sea and off the South Shetlands, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands

References

• Strebel, H., 1908. Die Gastropoden (mit Ausnahme de nackten Opisthobranchier). Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Schwedischen Süd-polar-Expedition 1901–1903, 6 (1):1–111, 6 pls.
• Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273–308.
• Kantor, Yuri I., Myroslaw G. Harasewych, and Nicolas Puillandre. "A critical review of Antarctic Conoidea (Neogastropoda)." Molluscan Research 36.3 (2016): 153–206.

External links

• Antarctic Invertebrates : Belaturricula turrita; accessed : 13 August 2011
• Schiaparelli, Stefano, Anne-Nina Lörz, and Riccardo Cattaneo-Vietti. "Diversity and distribution of mollusc assemblages on the Victoria Land coast and the Balleny Islands, Ross Sea, Antarctica." Antarctic Science 18.04 (2006): 615–631