Tegula tridentata

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Tegula tridentata
Tegula tridentata 001.jpg
Ten shells of Tegula tridentata
Scientific classification Red Pencil Icon.png
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Tegulidae
Genus: Tegula
Species:
T. tridentata
Binomial name
Tegula tridentata
(Potiez & Michaud, 1838)
Synonyms
  • Chlorostoma tridentata(Potiez & Michaud, 1838)
  • Monodonta tridentataPotiez & Michaud, 1838 (original combination)
  • Trochus microstomusd'Orbigny, 1841
  • Trochus stenomphalusJonas, 1844
  • Trochus tridensMke. in Philippi
  • Trochus tridentatusPhilippi

Tegula tridentata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tegulidae. [1]

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Description

The height of the shell varies between 19 mm and 22 mm, its diameter between 15 mm and 18 mm. The heavy and solid, elevated shell is minutely perforate and has a conoidal shape. Its color is black or purplish. The 5 to 6 whorls are slightly convex. They are smooth, the last one has a rounded periphery. The base of the shell is somewhat flattened, deeply eroded in front of the aperture. The small aperture is oblique. The outer lip is thick and lirate within. The short columella is oblique and distinctly tridentate at the base. The minute umbilicus is circular. [2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Pacific Ocean from Peru to Chile.

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References

Drawing with two views of a shell of Tegula tridentata Tegula tridentata 002.jpg
Drawing with two views of a shell of Tegula tridentata
  1. ↑ Bouchet, P. (2013). Tegula tridentata (Potiez & Michaud, 1838). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=718898 on 2014-01-02
  2. ↑ Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (described as Chlorostoma tridentata)
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