Antiplanes vinosa

Antiplanes vinosa, common name the left-handed turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.[1]

Antiplanes vinosa
Original image of a shell of Antiplanes vinosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Antiplanes
Species:
A. vinosa
Binomial name
Antiplanes vinosa
(Dall, 1874)
Synonyms[1]
  • Antiplanes contraria (Yokoyama, 1926)
  • Antiplanes kamchatica Dall, 1919
  • † Pleurotoma contraria Yokoyama, 1926
  • Pleurotoma vinosa Dall, 1874
  • Pleurotoma (Antiplanes) vinosa Dall, 1874

Description

The length of this sinistral shell attains 30 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Aleutians and Northern Japan.

References
  1. Antiplanes vinosa (Dall, 1874). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 31 March 2010.
  • Dall, W.H. (1874a) Catalogue of Shells from Bering Strait and the Adjacent Portions of the Arctic Ocean, with Descriptions of Three New Species. 7 pp.
  • Hasegawa K. (2009) Upper bathyal gastropods of the Pacific coast of northern Honshu, Japan, chiefly collected by R/V Wakataka-maru. In: T. Fujita (ed.), Deep-sea fauna and pollutants off Pacific coast of northern Japan. National Museum of Nature and Science Monographs 39: 225–383
  • Specimen at MNHN, Paris
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
  • "Antiplanes vinosa". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.


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