Buchema tainoa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Horaiclavidae.
It was formerly included within the family Turridae.Bouchet, P. (2015). Buchema tainoa (Corea, 1934). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=596474 on 2017-01-04
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
External links Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.