Neoterebra biminiensis
| Neoterebra biminiensis | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Terebridae |
| Genus: | Neoterebra |
| Species: | N. biminiensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Neoterebra biminiensis (Petuch, 1987) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Neoterebra biminiensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Terebridae, the auger snails.[1]
Description
[edit]Original description: "Shell slender, elongated, with straight-sided whorls; whorls with 21-25 narrow, rounded axial ribs; ribs slightly curved, being bent toward aperture near suture, and straight on main body of whorl; deeply impressed sulcus below suture, producing wide subsutural band; subsutural band intersected by axial ribs, producing beaded effect; body whorl, subsutural band and spire whorls covered by numerous, fine, raised spiral threads; aperture long and narrow, produced anteriorward; shell color uniform pale pinkish tan; interior of aperture rose-pink with tan overtones."[2]
Etymology
[edit]"Named for the Bimini Chain of islands, the Bahamas, the type locality."[2]
Distribution
[edit]Locus typicus: "Nixon's Harbour, South Bimini Island,
Bimini Chain, Bahamas."[2]
This marine species occurs off the Bahamas.
References
[edit]- Petuch E.J. (1987). New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas. Charlottesville, Virginia: The Coastal Education and Research Foundation. 154 pp., 29 pls; addendum 2 pp., 1 pl.
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