Tropaeas subulata

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)

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

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

^ 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
^ G.W. Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VIII p. 310; 1886

External links

To World Register of Marine Species

[WoRMS-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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