Aforia watsoni

Aforia watsoni
Shell of Aforia watsoni (specimen at USNM)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Cochlespiridae
Genus: Aforia
Species:
A. watsoni
Binomial name
Aforia watsoni
Synonyms
  • Aforia lepta (Watson, 1881) (invalid: junior homonym of Pleurotoma lepta Edwards, 1861; Aforia watsoni is a replacement name)
  • Marshallena lepta (Watson, 1881)
  • Pleurotoma (Surcula) lepta Watson, 1881
  • Pleurotoma lepta Watson, 1881
  • Pleurotomella (Anomalotomella) frigida (Thiele, 1912)
Abapertural view of a shell of Aforia watsoni

Aforia watsoni is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cochlespiridae.

Description

The shell grows to a length of 30 mm.

Distribution

This marine species is found off New Zealand and in the Southern Ocean, southeast of Australia; also off the Antarctic Peninsula at a depth between 210 m and 220 m.

References

  1. 1 2 Bouchet, P. (2016). Aforia watsoni Kantor, Harasewych & Puillandre, 2016. In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=881117 on 2016-07-04
  2. ↑ P. Bouchet; Yu. I. Kantor; A. Sysoev; N. Puillandre (2011). "A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda)". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77 (3): 273–308. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr017.