Turricula granobalteus

Turricula granobalteus
A shell of Turricula granobalteus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Gastropoda
Clade:Caenogastropoda
Clade:Hypsogastropoda
Clade:Neogastropoda
Superfamily:Conoidea
Family:Clavatulidae
Genus:Turricula
Species: T. granobalteus
Binomial name
Turricula granobalteus
(Hedley, 1922)
Synonyms[1]
  • Inquisitor granobalteus Hedley, 1922
  • Turricula nelliae granobalteus (Hedley, 1922)
  • Turricula granobalteatus [sic] (misspelling)

Turricula granobalteus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.[1][2]

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 25 mm and 40 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia) and off Japan

References

  1. 1 2 Turricula granobalteus (Hedley, 1922).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 April 2010.
  2. ↑ P. Bouchet; Yu. I. Kantor; A. Sysoev & N. Puillandre (2011). "A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda)". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77 (3): 273–308. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr017.
  • Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213-359, pls 42-56
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1968. The Turrid shellfish of Australian waters. Australian Natural History 1 16: 1-6
  • Wilson, B. 1994. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp.
  • Tucker, J.K. 2004. Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682: 1-1295
  • Taylor, J.D. & Glover, E.A. (2004) Diversity and distribution of subtidal benthic molluscs from the Dampier Archipelago, Western Australia; results of the 1999 dredge survey (DA2/99). Records of the Western Australia Museum Supplement, 66, 247-291. NIZT 6


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