Lophiotoma brevicaudata
Appearance
Lophiotoma brevicaudata | |
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Shell of Lophiotoma brevicaudata (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Turridae |
Genus: | Lophiotoma |
Species: | L. brevicaudata
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Binomial name | |
Lophiotoma brevicaudata ((Reeve, 1843)
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Synonyms[1] | |
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Lophiotoma brevicaudata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids.[1]
Description
[edit]The length of the shell varies between 16 mm and 24 mm.
The shell is concavely shouldered, forming a somewhat multispiral spire, sharply ridged throughout. The two ridges form the shoulder more prominent ; yellowish to brownish. The ridges are dark chestnut. [2]
Distribution
[edit]This marine species occurs off Papua New Guinea, Queensland, Australia and the Philippines.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Lophiotoma brevicaudata. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 April 2010.
- ^ G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- Adams, H. & Adams, A. 1853. The genera of Recent Mollusca arranged according to their organization. London : John Van Voorst Vol. 1(Parts I-VIII) pp. 1-256, pls 1-32
- Macandrew, R. 1870. Report on the testaceous Mollusca obtained during a dredging excursion in the Gulf of Suez in the months of February and March 1869. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4 6: 429-450
- Brazier, J. 1876. A list of the Pleurotomidae collected during the Chevert expedition, with the description of the new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1: 151–162
External links
[edit]- Reeve, L. A. (1843-1846). Monograph of the genus Pleurotoma. In: Conchologia Iconica, or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals
- Puillandre N., Fedosov A.E., Zaharias P., Aznar-Cormano L. & Kantor Y.I. (2017). A quest for the lost types of Lophiotoma (Gastropoda: Conoidea: Turridae): integrative taxonomy in a nomenclatural mess. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 181: 243-271