Cochlespira travancorica

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Cochlespira travancorica
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Cochlespiridae
Genus: Cochlespira
Species:
C. travancorica
Binomial name
Cochlespira travancorica
(Smith E. A., 1896)
Synonyms [1]
  • Pleurotoma (Ancistrosyrinx) travancoricaSmith E. A., 1896
  • Pleurotoma (Ancistrosyrinx) travancorica var. granulataSmith E. A., 1904
  • Ancistrosyrinx travancorica var. granulata(E.A. Smith) Schepman, 1913
  • Cochlespira travancorica travancorica(E.A. Smith) Powell, 1969

Cochlespira travancorica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cochlespiridae. [1] [2]

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Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 20 mm and 40 mm.

(Original description) The smooth shell is narrowly fusiform. The colour is a dull white under a thin greyish periostracum. The shell contains 7 whorls. The tall teleoconch is pagodaform. The whorls, at about three-fourths whorl height, are sharply angulated and coronated by a thin lamella which is produced into somewhat irregular upward curved broad based spines. Above the carina the shoulder is concave. From the carina to the lower suture the outlines are straight but inclined inward below. The lines of growth are finely striated. The body whorl is carinate a little below the dentate periphery and tapers gradually to a long straight siphonal canal which is obliquely striated. The narrow aperture continues into the siphonal canal. The outer lip is slender . The broad and deep sinus is profoundly arcuated above the peripheral carina and extending into the suture. [3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off India and Mozambique.

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References

  1. 1 2 Cochlespira travancorica (Smith E. A., 1896) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 31 August 2011.
  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 .
  3. ↑ Smith, E. A. "Natural history notes from HM Indian Marine Survey Steamer'Investigator', Commander CF Oldham, RN-Series II, No. 22. Descriptions of new Deep-sea Mollusca." Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6.18 (1896): 367–375. (described as Pleurotoma (Ancistrosyrinx) travancorica )
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