Antimelatoma benthicola

Taxobox
name = "Antimelatoma benthicola"


regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Caenogastropoda
ordo = Sorbeoconcha
subordo = Hypsogastropoda
infraordo = Neogastropoda
superfamilia = Conoidea
familia = Turridae
genus = "Antimelatoma"
species = "A. benthicola"
binomial = "Antimelatoma benthicola"
binomial_authority = Powell A. W. B., 1942
synonyms =

"Antimelatoma benthicola" is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Turridae, the turrids.

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand, found off Otago on the east coast of the South Island.

Habitat

This turrid is found at depths of between 90 and 130 m.

hell description

The shell is about the size of "Antimelatoma buchanani maorum" but narrower, and with the spiral cords heavier, almost entirely without interstitial threads.

The shell coloration is white.

Shell height is up to 14.4 mm, and width is up to 5 mm.

References

* Powell A. W. B., "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1