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Taxonomy
Family:
COCHLESPIRIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Conoidea (Superfamily)
> Cochlespiridae (Family)
> Aforia (Genus)
> watsoni (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Aforia lepta (R.B. Watson, 1881)
=Pleurotoma (Surcula) lepta R.B. Watson, 1881
=Pleurotoma lepta R.B. Watson, 1881
Images: Aforia watsoni Kantor, Harasewych & Puillandre, 2016
Collected 15 Mar 1964, 210-220 metres, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica. 35mm. © Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Taxonomy
Family:
COCHLESPIRIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Conoidea (Superfamily)
> Cochlespiridae (Family)
> Aforia (Genus)
> watsoni (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Aforia lepta (R.B. Watson, 1881)
=Pleurotoma (Surcula) lepta R.B. Watson, 1881
=Pleurotoma lepta R.B. Watson, 1881
Details: Aforia watsoni Kantor, Harasewych & Puillandre, 2016
Size/Grows to:
Height 35mm, Width 15mm
Distribution:
Southern Ocean. Bounty Trough, from 1676m
Notes:
Marine, Native - Non-endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Kantor, Y.I., Harasewych, M.G., Puillandre, N. 2016 A critical review of Antarctic Conoidea (Neogastropoda), Molluscan Research, 36(3) (p.191) Original Description
  • Sysoev, A.V., Kantor, Y.I. 1987 Deep-sea gastropods of the genus Aforia (Turridae) of the Pacific: Species composition, systematics, and functional morphology of the digestive system, The Veliger, 30 (p.107)

*98 © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)

NZ Geographical Regions
Key to symbols used in Checklist.
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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