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Turricula catena

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Turricula catena
Apertural view of a shell of Turricula catena (museum specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Clavatulidae
Genus: Turricula
Species:
T. catena
Binomial name
Turricula catena
(Reeve, 1843)
Synonyms[1]
  • Pleurotoma catena Reeve, 1843

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

Description

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Distribution

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This species occurs in the Red Sea.

References

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  1. ^ a b Turricula catena. 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.
  • Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp