Buchema tainoa (Corea 1934)

Buchema tainoa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Horaiclavidae.

It was formerly included within the family Turridae.^[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 14.2 mm, its diameter 5.9 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Puerto Rico.

References

• Corea, Lois Fleming. "New marine mollusks (with three plates)." (1934)
• Bartsch, P. (1934) Reports on the collections obtained by the first Johnson-Smithsonian deep-sea expedition to the Puerto Rican deep; new mollusks of the family Turritidae. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 91, 1–29, 8 pls