Cheungbeia laterculata

Cheungbeia laterculata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Clade:	Caenogastropoda
Clade:	Hypsogastropoda
Clade:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Cheungbeia
Species:	C. laterculata
Binomial name
	Cheungbeia laterculata; (G. B. Sowerby II, 1870)
Synonyms[1]
	Drillia laterculata Schepman 1913; Inquisitor laterculata (G. B. Sowerby II, 1870); Inquisitor zonata (non Reeve, 1843): Chang and Wu 2000; Pleurotoma laterculata G. B. Sowerby II, 1870 (original combination);

Cheungbeia laterculata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies^[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 22 mm, its diameter 7.5 mm.

This species occurs in the China Seas, off Vietnam, Southeast India and off the Gulf of Carpentaria to Queensland, Australia

1 2 MolluscaBase (2018). Cheungbeia laterculata (G. B. Sowerby II, 1870). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1056323 on 2018-06-02

Sowerby II, G. B. (1870). Descriptions of forty-eight new species of shells. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1870): 249-259
Schepman, M.M. 1913. Toxoglossa. pp. 384–396 in Weber, M. & de Beaufort, L.F. (eds). The Prosobranchia, Pulmonata and Opisthobranchia Tectibranchiata, Tribe Bullomorpha, of the Siboga Expedition. Monograph 49. Siboga Expeditie 32(2)
Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213-359, pls 42-56
Li B.Q., Kilburn R.N., & Li X.Z. (2010). Report on Crassispirinae Morrison, (Mollusca: Neogastropoda: Turridae) from the China Seas. Journal of Natural History. 44, 699-740

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