Tropaeas subulata

Tropaeas subulata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.[1]

Tropaeas subulata
Drawing of a shell of Tropaeas subulata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
Superfamily:
Pyramidelloidea
Family:
Pyramidellidae
Genus:
Tropaeas
Species:
T. subulata
Binomial name
Tropaeas subulata
(A. Adams, 1853)

Description

The whitish, somewhat shining shell is smooth and pellucid. The length of the shell is 9.5 mm. Its apex is mucronate. The whorls of the teleoconch are plano-convex, strongly longitudinally costate, and with punctate interstices. The columella is uniplicate in the middle. The aperture is produced and subchanneled below. The shell is umbilicated.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Red Sea, off the Philippines and off Japan.

References
  1. Rosenberg, G. (2011). Tropaeas subulata (A. Adams, 1853). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=588567 on 2012-01-12
  2. G.W. Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VIII p. 310; 1886
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