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Bouchetispiridae
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Bouchetispiridae
Kantor, Strong & Puillandre, 2012
Genera

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Bouchetispiridae is a monotypic family of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea, the cone snails and their allies. Thie family was discovered and named in 2012, in honor of Philippe Bouchet, the French taxonomist and malacologist.

This family contains one genus:

And the genus in turn contains one species:

The species was found on an isolated sea mount off New Caledonia, and is probably the sole survivor of a larger clade.[2]

References

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference WoRMS was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Kantor Y.I., Strong E.E. & Puillandre N. (2012) A new lineage of Conoidea (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda) revealed by morphological and molecular data. Journal of Molluscan Studies 78: 246–255
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