Bolma recens

Taxobox
name = "Bolma recens"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Prosobranchia
ordo = Archaeogastropoda
superfamilia = Trochacea
familia = Turbinidae
genus = "Bolma"
species = "B. recens"
binomial = "Bolma recens"
binomial_authority = Dell, 1967
synonyms =

"Bolma recens" is a sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Turbinidae.

Distribution

This species is endemic to the Kiwi Seamount (approximately longitude 174° East, latitude 31° South), north of New Zealand.

Habitat

This top shell is found at depths of between 540 and 680 m.

hell description

The shell is of medium size, solid, conical, with canaliculate sutures, imperforate, but there is a broad, smooth concave basal area, bounded by a ridge. Sculpture consists of two prominent nodular spiral keels, and many weaker spirals, rendered granulose by growth lines. The operculum is oval, callused, with coarse spirals around the periphery, and with indistinct broad flat pustules over the central area.

Shell coloration is dull light brown, and the callus is .

The shell height is up to 31 mm, and the width is up to 30 mm.

References

* Powell A. W. B., "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
* [http://encarta.msn.com/map_701578775/Kiwi_Seamount_(Pacific_Ocean).html Location of Kiwi Seamount in the Pacific]