''Sibogasyrinx archibenthalis'' is a
species of
sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...
, a marine
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusc
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is esti ...
in the
family Cochlespiridae
Cochlespiridae is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic family (biology), family of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.
This family is not well differentiated morphologically, and there is poor congruence betwe ...
.
Description
Distribution
This marine species occurs off the
Philippines at a depth of 924 m.
References
* Powell (1969), Indo-Pacific Mollusca. 2(10): 334, pl. 264, fig. 6,7.
External links
Kantor Yu.I., Fedosov A.E. & Puillandre N. (2018). ''New and unusual deep-water Conoidea revised with shell, radula and DNA characters''. Ruthenica. 28(2): 47–82
archibenthalis
Gastropods described in 1969
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