Mioawateria asarotum

Mioawateria asarotum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.[1]

Mioawateria asarotum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Mioawateria
Species:
M. asarotum
Binomial name
Mioawateria asarotum
Sysoev, 1997

Description

The length of the shell attains 6.9 mm, its diameter 4.8 mm.

Distribution

This marine species was found in the Arafura Sea, at depths between 884m-891 m

References

  • Sysoev, Alexander (1997). Crosnier, A.; Bouchet, P. (eds.). "Mollusca Gastropoda: New deep-water turrid gastropods (Conoidea) from eastern Indonesia" (PDF). Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM. Mém. Mus. natn. Hist. nat. 16 (172): 325–355. ISBN 2-85653-506-2. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
  • MNHN, Paris: holotype
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.


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