Bathytoma murdochi facts for kids

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Scientific classification
Synonyms
Bathytoma murdochi murdochi (Finlay, 1930) Bathytoma (Micantapex) murdochi murdochi, Beu & Maxwell 1990 Micantapex finlayi Powell, 1940 Pleurotoma tuberculata Kirk 1882 (preoccupied, replaced by Pleurotoma (Hemipleurotoma) nodilirata Murdoch & Suter 1906) Pleurotoma (Hemipleurotoma) nodilirata Murdoch & Suter 1906 (also preoccupied; replaced by Bathytoma murdochi Finlay 1930)

Bathytoma murdochi is a recent and fossil species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off New Zealand and Tasmania

Description

The height of the biconic shell varies between 23 mm and 27 mm.

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