Sea snail
NHMUK-1887.2.9.1118
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Creative Commons CC0 1.0
Scientific name:
Pleurotoma Thesbia monoceros
Voyage:
HMS Challenger (1872-76)
Date Collected:
23 August 1873 - 23 August 1873
Form:
Dry
Type status:
Holotype
Station:
104
Taxonomy
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
Order:
Neogastropoda
Family:
Turridae
Genus:
Pleurotoma
Subgenus:
Pleurotoma Thesbia
Species:
Pleurotoma Thesbia monoceros Watson, 1881
Station/Area Information
Station:
104
Date collected:
23/08/1873
Area:
S.W. of Sierra Leone, West Africa
Water body:
Eastern Central Atlantic Ocean
FAO:
34
Depth (Fathoms):
2500 fathoms
Decimal Latitude:
2.42
Decimal Longitude:
-20.02
Surface Temperature:
78°F
Bottom Temperature:
36.6°F
Gear:
Trawl
Sediment sample:
Globigerina ooze
Specific Gravity at water bottom:
1.02801
Specific Gravity at water surface:
1.02339
Temperature at 10 fathoms:
78.4°F
Temperature at 20 fathoms:
77.8°F
Temperature at 30 fathoms:
76°F
Temperature at 40 fathoms:
68.8°F
Temperature at 50 fathoms:
63.8°F
Temperature at 60 fathoms:
60.5°F
Temperature at 100 fathoms:
55°F
Temperature at 200 fathoms:
49°F
Temperature at 300 fathoms:
45°F
Temperature at 400 fathoms:
42.4°F
Temperature at 500 fathoms:
40.7°F
Temperature at 600 fathoms:
39.7°F
Temperature at 700 fathoms:
39.2°F
Temperature at 800 fathoms:
38.9°F
Temperature at 900 fathoms:
38.6°F
Temperature at 1000 fathoms:
38.2°F
Temperature at 1100 fathoms:
37.9°F
Temperature at 1200 fathoms:
37.6°F
Temperature at 1300 fathoms:
37.3°F
Temperature at 1400 fathoms:
37°F
Temperature at 1500 fathoms:
36.7°F
