''Boreotrophon clathratus'',
common name
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the clathrate trophon, is a
species
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of
sea snail
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, a marine
gastropod
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This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusk
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in the
family
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Muricidae
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, the murex snails or rock snails.
Description
The height of the shell is in exceess of . The fusiform shell has fourteen ribs or more. The whorls have numerous sharp, laminated varices. The canal is open and turned to the left. There is no umbilicus. The thin lip is smooth within.
Distribution
This species has a wide, usually boreal distribution. It occurs in European waters, the
Baltic Sea
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, the
Beaufort Sea
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, in the Northwest
Atlantic Ocean
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, in the
Bering Strait
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, in the
Yellow Sea
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Names
It is one of four ...
, in the
Pacific Ocean
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.
References
Further reading
* Ziegelmeier, E. (1966). ''Die Schnecken (Gastropoda Prosobranchia) der deutsche Meeresgebiete und brackigen Küstengewässer
he Gastropoda Prosobranchia from the German seas and brackish coastal waters'' Helgol. Wiss. Meeresunters. 13: 1-66
* Gosner, K.L. 1971. ''Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy''. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 693 p.
* Linkletter, L.E. 1977. ''A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy''. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p
* Backeljau, T. (1986). ''Lijst van de recente mariene mollusken van België
'' Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 106 pp
* Turgeon, D.D., et al. 1998. ''Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates of the United States and Canada.'' American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26
* de Kluijver, M.J.; Ingalsuo, S.S.; de Bruyne, R.H. (2000). ''Macrobenthos of the North Sea''
D-ROM 1. Keys to Mollusca and Brachiopoda. World Biodiversity Database CD-ROM Series. Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification (ETI): Amsterdam, the Netherlands. . 1 cd-rom pp
* Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). ''European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification.'' Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
* Trott, T.J. 2004. ''Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years.'' Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261–324
* Muller, Y. (2004). ''Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire.
oastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory'' Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.
* Yakovis E. & Artemieva A. (2015). "Bored to Death: Community-Wide Effect of Predation on a Foundation Species in a Low-Disturbance Arctic Subtidal System". ''PLoS ONE'' 10(7): e0132973.
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Boreotrophon
Molluscs of the Atlantic Ocean
Molluscs of the Pacific Ocean
Gastropods described in 1767
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus