Lophiotoma friedrichbonhoefferi

Species of gastropod

Lophiotoma friedrichbonhoefferi
Shell of Lophiotoma friedrichbonhoefferi (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Turridae
Genus: Lophiotoma
Species:
L. friedrichbonhoefferi
Binomial name
Lophiotoma friedrichbonhoefferi
Olivera, 2004[1]
Synonyms[2]

Gemmula (Unedogemmula) friedrichbonhoefferi (Olivera, 2004)

Lophiotoma friedrichbonhoefferi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids.[2]

Description

The length of the shell varies between 35 mm and 50 mm.

Members of the species are predators and are benthic.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Philippines.

References

  1. ^ Olivera. 2004. Science Diliman, 16 (1) : 1–28. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 5 April 2010.
  2. ^ a b c Lophiotoma friedrichbonhoefferi Olivera, 2004. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 April 2010.
  • Olivera. 2004. Larger forms in Lophiotoma defined: Four new species described from the Philippines and three from elsewhere in the Indo-Pacific. Science Diliman, 16 (1) : 1-28
Taxon identifiers
Lophiotoma friedrichbonhoefferi
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