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Austrotheta subrosea

species of mollusc

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ3716999 ↗
Source-derived summary

Austrotheta subrosea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off South Africa.

References

External links

Barnard, Keppel Harcourt. Deep sea Mollusca from west of Cape Point, South Africa. South African Museum, 1963

Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.

Criscione, F.; Hallan, A. (2025).

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The public source identifies “Austrotheta subrosea” as species of mollusc. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Austrotheta, subrosea and species.

Editorial reviewA practical orientation to terminology and classification, particularly when read beside dated observations, specimens or technical literature. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1963, 2004, 1295, 2025—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Austrotheta, subrosea and species providing the first useful test.
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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3716999. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1963, 2004, 1295 and 2025.

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This entry incorporates text from “Austrotheta subrosea” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.