Kingdom Animalia Class Gastropoda Superfamily Pleurotomarioidea | Phylum Mollusca Clade Vetigastropoda Family Pleurotomariidae | |
Bayerotrochus pyramus, common name the pyramus slit shell, is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pleurotomariidae, the slit snails.
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Description
The shell reaches a length of 64 mm.
Distribution
This marine species occurs in the Lesser Antilles off Guadeloupe, St Lucia and Martinique at depths between 400 m and 560 m.
References
Bayerotrochus pyramus Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA