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Aforia magnifica

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| taxon = Aforia magnifica

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| image_caption = Shell of Aforia magnifica (specimen at the Smithsonian Institution)

| authority = (Strebel, 1908)

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  • Danilacarina elenae Bozzetti, 1997
  • Surcula magnifica Strebel, 1908

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Aforia magnifica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cochlespiridae.{{WRMS species|197026|Aforia magnifica (Strebel, 1908)||29 August 2011}}{{cite journal |author1=P. Bouchet |author2=Yu. I. Kantor |author3=A. Sysoev |author4=N. Puillandre |year=2011 |title=A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda) |journal=Journal of Molluscan Studies |volume=77 |issue=3 |pages=273–308 |doi=10.1093/mollus/eyr017|doi-access=free }}

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 40 mm and 150 mm. The radula has a large-based unicuspid central tooth.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49808637#page/64/mode/1up Indo-Pacific mollusca; Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Department of Mollusks; v.1 = no. 5–8 (1964) p. 290]

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Distribution

This species is found off the South Sandwich Islands, the South Orkneys, South Shetland, the Antarctic Peninsula and the Weddell Sea, Antarctica

References

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  • Strebel, Dr. H., die Gastropoden. In: Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Schwedischen Südpolar-Expedition 1901—1903 unter Leitung von Dr. Otto Nordenskjöld, Band VI, Lfg. 1. — Mit 6 Tafeln.
  • Bozzetti, L. (1997). Description of a new genus and a new species (Gastropoda: Turridae, Turriculinae) from the Kerguelen Islands, southern Indian Ocean / Descrizione di un nuovo genere ed una nuova specie (Gastropoda: Turridae, Turriculinae) dalle Isole Kerguelen, Oceano Indiano meridionale. World Shells. 23: 42-44.
  • Engl, W. (2012). Shells of Antarctica. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 402 pp.

External links

  • [https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13235818.2015.1128523 Kantor Y.I., Harasewych M.G. & Puillandre N. (2016). A critical review of Antarctic Conoidea (Neogastropoda). Molluscan Research. DOI: 10.1080/13235818.2015.1128523]
  • [https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4109.4.4 Pastorino G. & Sánchez N. (2016). Southwestern Atlantic species of conoidean gastropods of the genus Aforia Dall, 1889. Zootaxa. 4109(4): 458-470]
  • [https://www.bas.ac.uk/data/our-data/publication/sombase-southern-ocean-mollusc-database-a-tool-for-biogeographic/ Griffiths, H.J.; Linse, K.; Crame, J.A. (2003). SOMBASE - Southern Ocean mollusc database: a tool for biogeographic analysis in diversity and evolution. Organisms Diversity and Evolution. 3: 207-213]
  • {{Gastropods.com|key=1|id=9801|title=Aforia (Aforia) magnifica|access-date=29 August 2011}}

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Category:Gastropods described in 1908

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