Teretia multicingula

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Teretia multicingula
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Original image of a shell of † Teretia multicingula
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Teretia
Species:
T. multicingula
Binomial name
Teretia multicingula
(Seguenza, 1880)
Synonyms [1]

† Homotoma multicingulaSeguenza, 1880

Teretia multicingula is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae. [1]

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Description

The length of the shell attains 15 mm, its diameter 6 mm.

(Original description in Italian) This is also a species close to Teretia anceps from which it differs by the shape and the course of the cinguli, which are very numerous, not very prominent, and very close so that the interstices become minimal. The convex whorls have deep sutures. [2]

Distribution

Fossils of this marine species were found in Pliocene strata in Calabria, Italy

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