Aforia multispiralis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cochlespiridae.[1]

Aforia multispiralis
Shell of Aforia multispiralis (specimen at the Smithsonian Institution)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Cochlespiridae
Genus: Aforia
Species:
A. multispiralis
Binomial name
Aforia multispiralis
Dell, 1990
Synonyms[1]

Danilacarina elenae Bozzetti, 1997

Description

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The size of an adult shell varies between 40 mm and 90 mm.

Distribution

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This species is found in the cold waters of the South Orkneys, the South Shetland Islands, Kerguelen Island and the Antarctic Peninsula.

References

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  1. ^ a b Aforia multispiralis Dell, 1990. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 31 March 2010.
  • Dell, R. K. (1990). Antarctic Mollusca with special reference to the fauna of the Ross Sea. Bulletin of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Wellington 27: 1–311
  • Bozzetti L. (1997) Description of a new genus and a new species (Gastropoda: Turridae, Turriculinae) from the Kerguelen Islands, southern Indian Ocean / Descrizione di un nuovo genere ed una nuova specie (Gastropoda: Turridae, Turriculinae) dalle Isole Kerguelen, Oceano Indiano meridionale. World Shells 23: 42–44
  • Wiese V. (2001) Comments on a "new" turrid species from Kerguelen. Schriften zur Malakozoologie 18: 33–34.
  • Engl, W. (2012). Shells of Antarctica. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 402 pp.
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  • Kantor Y.I., Harasewych M.G. & Puillandre N. (2016). A critical review of Antarctic Conoidea (Neogastropoda). Molluscan Research. 36(3): 153-206
  • Griffiths, H.J.; Linse, K.; Crame, J.A. (2003). SOMBASE - Southern Ocean mollusc database: a tool for biogeographic analysis in diversity and evolution. Organisms Diversity and Evolution. 3: 207-213
  • Pastorino G. & Sánchez N. (2016). Southwestern Atlantic species of conoidean gastropods of the genus Aforia Dall, 1889. Zootaxa. 4109(4): 458-470
  • "Aforia multispiralis". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 29 August 2011.