''Falsimohnia innocens'' is a

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sea snail Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...

, a marine

gastropod Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...

mollusc Mollusca is a phylum of protostome, protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant taxon, extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum ...

in the

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Buccinidae The Buccinidae are a very large and diverse taxonomic family of large sea snails, often known as whelks or true whelks.Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2010). Buccinidae. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Ac ...

, the true whelks.Bouchet, P. (2015). Falsimohnia innocens (E. A. Smith, 1907). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=736325 on 2016-05-03

Description

Distribution

This species occurs in the

Ross Sea The Ross Sea is a deep bay of the Southern Ocean in Antarctica, between Victoria Land and Marie Byrd Land and within the Ross Embayment, and is the southernmost sea on Earth. It derives its name from the British explorer James Clark Ross who ...

References

* Egorova E.I. (1972). New species of prosobranch gastropods (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia) of the Davis Sea. Issledovaniya Fauny Morey. 11(19): 383-394.

External links

Smith, E. A. (1907). Mollusca Gastropoda. In: National Antarctic Expedition 1901-1904 (Natural History, Zoology), 2. pp 1-13

Kantor Yu.I. & Harasewych M.G. (2013) ''Antarctica, where turrids and whelks converge: A revision of Falsimohnia Powell, 1951 (Neogastropoda: Buccinoidea) and a description of a new genus''. The Nautilus 127(2): 43(56)
innocens Molluscs of the Southern Ocean Gastropods described in 1907 Taxa named by Edgar Albert Smith {{Buccinidae-stub