Toxiclionella tumida
Toxiclionella tumida | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Clavatulidae |
Genus: | Toxiclionella |
Species: | T. tumida
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Binomial name | |
Toxiclionella tumida (G.B. Sowerby II, 1870)
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Toxiclionella tumida is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.[1] [2]
Description
The shell grows to a length of 60 mm. The thick shell is subfusiform. The ground color of the shell is light green, with a reddish tone between the arcuate, opisthocline ribs and with a thick, olive-brown periostracum. The acuminate, orthoconic spire ends abruptly in a large blunt protoconch. The whorls are slightly convex. The outer lip shows a thick callus and parietal tubercle. The anal sinus in this species is very wide and rather shallow. The pear-shaped aperture is relatively large. The broad siphonal canal is unnotched and of moderate length. The subsutural cord is strong and more tumid than in Toxiclionella haliplex. [3] [4]
Distribution
This marine species occurs along the Agulhas Bank, South Africa.
References
- ^ a b Toxiclionella tumida (Sowerby II, 1870). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 April 2010.
- ^ 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.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Sowerby, G. B. II, "Descriptions of forty-eight new species of shells." Proceedings of the Zoological society of London. Vol.XVIII p.253. 1870
- ^ KIlburn RN (1985), Turridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 2. Subfamily Clavatulinae; Annals of the Natal Museum, 1985
- Kilburn, R.N. (1985). Turridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 2. Subfamily Clavatulinae. Ann. Natal Mus. 26(2), 417-470
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