Turricula granobalteus

Turricula granobalteus
	A shell of Turricula granobalteus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Clavatulidae
Genus:	Turricula
Species:	T. granobalteus
Binomial name
	Turricula granobalteus; (Hedley, 1922)
Synonyms
	Inquisitor granobalteus Hedley, 1922; Turricula nelliae granobalteus (Hedley, 1922); Turricula granobalteatus [sic] (misspelling);

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

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 25 mm and 40 mm.

This marine species occurs off Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia) and off Japan

^ ^a ^b Turricula granobalteus (Hedley, 1922). 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. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |last-author-amp= ignored (|name-list-style= suggested) (help)

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Powell, A.W.B. 1968. The Turrid shellfish of Australian waters. Australian Natural History 1 16: 1-6
Wilson, B. 1994. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp.
Tucker, J.K. 2004. Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682: 1-1295
Taylor, J.D. & Glover, E.A. (2004) Diversity and distribution of subtidal benthic molluscs from the Dampier Archipelago, Western Australia; results of the 1999 dredge survey (DA2/99). Records of the Western Australia Museum Supplement, 66, 247-291. NIZT 6

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