Tegula eiseni

Tegula eiseni
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Tegulidae
Genus:	Tegula
Species:	T. eiseni
Binomial name
Tegula eiseni (Jordan, 1936)
Synonyms
Tegula (Agathistoma) mendellaMcLean, J.H., 1964

Tegula eiseni, common name the western banded tegula, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tegulidae. ^[1]

Description

The size of the shell varies between 13 mm and 22 mm, and it is covered in 12-13 spiral ribs which are coarse and nodded when above the widest part of the whorl. ^[1]

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  upperside, Point Loma, San Diego
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  underside, Point Loma, San Diego

Distribution

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean from central California, USA to Baja California, Mexico

References

1. Tegula eiseni (Jordan, 1936) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 20 April 2010.

• Williams S.T., Karube S. & Ozawa T. (2008) Molecular systematics of Vetigastropoda: Trochidae, Turbinidae and Trochoidea redefined. Zoologica Scripta 37: 483–506.

External links

• "Tegula eiseni". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
• Wallawalla: Tegula eiseni