Aforia watsoni

Short description: Species of gastropod

Aforia watsoni

Original image of a shell of Aforia watsoni
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Mollusca
Class:  | Gastropoda
Subclass:  | Caenogastropoda
Order:  | Neogastropoda
Superfamily:  | Conoidea
Family:  | Cochlespiridae
Genus:  | Aforia
Species:  |

A. watsoni

Binomial name
Aforia watsoni

Kantor, Harasewych & Puillandre, 2016

Synonyms[1]

* Aforia lepta (Watson, 1881) (invalid: junior homonym of Pleurotoma lepta Edwards, 1861; Aforia watsoni is a replacement name)
* Marshallena lepta (Watson, 1881)
* Pleurotoma (Surcula) lepta Watson, 1881
* Pleurotoma lepta Watson, 1881
* Pleurotomella (Anomalotomella) frigida (Thiele, 1912)

Aforia watsoni is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cochlespiridae.[1][2]

The name of this species is interim published.[1]

## Contents

* 1 Description
* 2 Distribution
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## Description

The shell grows to a length of 30 mm.

## Distribution

This marine species is found off New Zealand and in the Southern Ocean, southeast of Australia; also off the Antarctic Peninsula at a depth between 210 m and 220 m.

## References

Abapertural view of a shell of Aforia watsoni

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Bouchet, P. (2016). Aforia watsoni Kantor, Harasewych & Puillandre, 2016. In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=881117 on 2016-07-04
2. ↑ P. Bouchet; Yu. I. Kantor; A. Sysoev; N. Puillandre (2011). "A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda)". Journal of Molluscan Studies 77 (3): 273–308. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr017.

* Watson, R.B. 1881. Mollusca of "H.M.S. Challenger" expedition. Parts VIII-X. Pleurotomidae. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 15: 388–475
* Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213–359, pls 42–56
* Powell, A.W.B. 1969. The family Turridae in the Indo-Pacific. Part. 2. The subfamily Turriculinae. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 2(10): 207–415, pls 188–324
* Tucker, J.K. 2004. Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682: 1–1295

## External links

* Kantor Y.I., Harasewych M.G. & Puillandre N. (2016). A critical review of Antarctic Conoidea (Neogastropoda). Molluscan Research. DOI: 10.1080/13235818.2015.1128523

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