Maoritomella pleonastica

Maoritomella pleonastica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.[1]

Maoritomella pleonastica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Borsoniidae
Genus: Maoritomella
Species:
M. pleonastica
Binomial name
Maoritomella pleonastica
(Barnard, 1958)
Synonyms[1]
  • Drillia pleonastica Barnard, 1958 original combination)
  • Tomopleura (Maoritomella) pleonastica (Barnard, 1958)

Description

The height of the shell attains 10.9 mm, its width 4.1 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Agulhas Bank, South Africa

References
  1. WoRMS (2015). Maoritomella pleonastica. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=434383 on 2016-03-13
  • Barnard, K. H. 1958. Contributions to the knowledge of South African marine Mollusca. Part 1. Gastropoda: Prosobranchiata: Toxoglossa. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. 44: 73–163.
  • R.N. Kilburn, Turridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 3. Subfamily Borsoniinae; Annals of the Natal Museum, 1986 - reference.sabinet.co.za
  • "Tomopleura (Maoritomella) pleonastica". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  • Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273–308
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