''Aforia watsoni'' is a

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of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the

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Cochlespiridae Cochlespiridae is a taxonomic family of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea. This family is not well differentiated morphologically, and there is poor congruence between the molecular and shell characters. ...

.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

Description

The shell grows to a length of 30 mm.

Distribution

This marine species is found off

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and in the

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, southeast of Australia; also off the Antarctic Peninsula at a depth between 210 m and 220 m.

References

* 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
watsoni Gastropods described in 2016 {{Cochlespiridae-stub