Species Aforia multispiralis Dell, 1990

Museums

Regional Maps

• Aforia multispiralis Dell, R.K. 1990. Antarctic Mollusca: with special reference to the fauna of the Ross Sea. Bulletin of the Royal Society of New Zealand 27: 1–311 [231-233].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 860145, Eltanin station 426: Off South Shetland Islands in 809-1116 m [62°27'S 57°58'W].
• Danilacarina elenae Bozzetti, L. 1997. Description of a new genus and a new species (Gastropoda: Turridae, Turriculinae) from the Kerguelen Islands, southern Indian Ocean. World Shells 23: 42–44 [42-44].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Wiese, V. 2001. Comments on a "new" turrid species from Kerguelen. Schriften zur Malakozoologie aus dem Haus der Natur-Cismar 18: 33–34 [33-34]

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Off Antarctic Peninsula; Bransfield Strait; off South Shetland Islands and South Orkneys; off Amery Ice shelf

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory

Ecological Descriptors

Continental rise, continental slope, marine.

General References

Dell, R.K. 1990. Antarctic Mollusca: with special reference to the fauna of the Ross Sea. Bulletin of the Royal Society of New Zealand 27: 1–311 [231-233]

Engl, W. 2012. Shells of Antarctica. Hackenheim : Conchbooks 402 pp. [180, pl. 73 figs 3a-c]

Tucker, J. 2010. Aforia multispiralis Dell, 1990. Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: De Broyer, C.; Clarke, A.; Koubbi, P.; Pakhomov, E.; Scott, F.; Vanden Berghe, E. and Danis, B. (Eds). The SCAR-MarBIN Register of Antarctic Marine Species (RAMS). Accessed on 2011-11-21. http://www.scarmarbin.be/rams.php?p=taxdetails&id=197027

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