Lophiotoma koolhoveni is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Turridae |
| Genus: | Lophiotoma |
| Species: | L. koolhoveni
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| Binomial name | |
| Lophiotoma koolhoveni (Oostingh, 1938)
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Description edit
The length of the shell varies between 17.8 mm and 42.5 mm.
Distribution edit
This marine species occurs off Java, Indonesia; in the South China Sea. Fossils were found in Pliocene strata in Bantam, Java.
References edit
- ^ BAOQUAN LI & XINZHENG LI, Report on the turrid genera Gemmula, Lophiotoma and Ptychosyrinx (Gastropoda: Turridae: Turrinae) from the China seas; Zootaxa 1778: 1–25 (2008)
- Oostingh, C. H. "Mollusken als gidsfossielen voor het Neogeen in Nederlandsch-Indië." Handelingen van het achste Nederlandsch-Indisch Natuurwetenschap-pelijk Congres gehouden te, Soerabaja van. 1938.
- Oostingh, C. H. Die Mollusken des Pliocäns von Süd-Bantam in Java. Afdeeling Geologie van den Dienst van den Mijnbouw, 1938.
- Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
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