Raphitoma bernardoi

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

Raphitoma bernardoi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Raphitoma
Species:
R. bernardoi
Binomial name
Raphitoma bernardoi
Rolán, Otero-Schmitt & Fernandes, 1998

Description

The length of the shell reaches a length of 11 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Ghana to Angola; off the Cape Verdes.

References

  • Rolán E., 2005. Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda.
  • MNHN, Paris: holotype
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
  • Rolán E., Otero-Schmitt J. & Fernandes F. (1998) The family Turridae s. l. (Mollusca, Neogastropoda) in Angola (West Africa). 1. Subfamily Daphnellinae. Iberus, 16: 95–118


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