| Genota nicklesi | |
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| Apertural view of a shell of Genota nicklesi | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Borsoniidae |
| Genus: | Genota |
| Species: | G. nicklesi |
| Binomial name | |
| Genota nicklesi Knudsen, 1952 [1] | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Genota nicklesi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.[2]
Description
The shells of most species of sea snails are spirally coiled. 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
- ↑ 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, 1 fig. 12pl.
- 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 9 March 2016
External links
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