Belaturricula turrita

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Kingdom Animalia Class Gastropoda Clade Hypsogastropoda Scientific name Belaturricula turrita		Phylum Mollusca Clade Caenogastropoda Clade Neogastropoda Rank Species

Belaturricula turrita is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.

There are two subspecies :

Belaturricula turrita multispiralis Dell, 1990

Belaturricula turrita turrita (Strebel, 1908): represented as Belaturricula turrita (Strebel, 1908)

Description

The length of the shell varies between 25 mm and 60 mm.

This marine species occurs in the Antarctic waters of the Scotia Sea and off the South Shetlands, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands

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