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Bolma exotica Okutani, 1964

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Trochida »  family Turbinidae - Turbans and Star Shells »  genus Bolma

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Bolma exotica

Author: Okutani, T.

Bolma exotica

Author: Beu, A. & Ponder, W.F.

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Description

Senobolma exotica Okutani, 1969: 138, text-fig. 2, 3.
DIAGNOSIS. Differs from 6. (Senobolma) venusta in having low, rounded gemmae on the upper three spiral cords of early spire whorls, the gemmae becoming progressively more fused into axial ridges down the shell, so that on the last whorl they form short, rounded, very strongly prosocline ridges.
DIMENSIONS. Holotype: height 12.2 mm, diameter 9.8 mm; paratype: height 12.9 mm, diameter 10.7 mm.
TYPE LOCALITY. 26°46.0'N, 135°22.5'E, 644 km off Cape Shiono-Misaki, Japan, 435 m. TYPES. Holotype, NSMT, with one paratype.
Beu, A.G. & Ponder, W.F., 1979. A revision of the species of Bolma Risso, 1826 (Gastropoda: Turbinidae).
Author: Jan Delsing

Links and literature

EN Galli C.: WMSDB - Wolrdwide Mollusc Species Data Base July 10, 2013 [http://www.bagniliggia.it/WMSD/WMSDhome....] [as Bolma exotica (Okutani, 1969)]
Data retrieved on: 23 November 2013

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