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Bolma venusta (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 venusta

Author: Okutani, T.

Bolma venusta

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

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Description

Senobolma venusta Okutani, 1964: 135, pl. 8, fig. 1-3; Okutani, 1969: 138, text-fig. 4; Kuroda et a/., 1971: 49, pi. 15, fig. 7; Okutani, 1972: 80, fig. 13, 14.
DIAGNOSIS. A small, tall-spired Bolma with sculpture of smooth spiral cords on surfaces of whorls, short peripheral spines on early spire whorls only, and with a smooth base. The natural-size coloured illustration by Kuroda et al. (1971, pl. 15, fig. 7) shows the colour to be brownish red, with the aperture and base white.
DIMENSIONS. Holotype: height 13.0 mm, diameter 11.0 mm.
TYPE LOCALITY. 34°02.8'N, 138°54.5'E, Zenisu Bank, S.W. of Kozu Is., Izu Ids, Japan, 140-200 m.
TYPES. Holotype, NSMT, with one paratype.
OTHER LOCALITIES. 98 m, S. of Jagoshima, Sagami Bay, Honshu, Japan (Kuroda et a/. 1971, p. 49); seven localities on Zenisu, Hyotanse and Takase Banks, south of the Izu-Shichito Ids, Japan, in 106 to 260 m (Okutani, 1972, p. 80).
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 venusta Okutani, 1964]
Data retrieved on: 23 November 2013

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