Tritonoturris amabilis

Tritonoturris amabilis
Shell of Tritonoturris amabilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Raphitomidae
Genus:	Tritonoturris
Species:	T. amabilis
Binomial name
Tritonoturris amabilis (Hinds, 1843)
Synonyms [1]
Clathurella amabilis(Hinds, 1843) Clathurella elegansPease, 1860 (junior synonym) Clathurella robillardiH. Adams, 1869 (original combination) Clavatula amabilisHinds, 1843 Pleurotoma amabilisReeve, 1846 Tritonoturris robillardi(H. Adams, 1869)

Tritonoturris amabilis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae. ^[1]

This species was placed in this genus by A.W.B. Powell in 1966. ^[2]

Description

The length of the shell attains 22 mm.

The thin, white shell shows distant, thin, ridge-like ribs, and distant revolving lirae, more closely striate at the base. (described as Clathurella robillardi)

The shell contains nine whorls. The few ribs are distant and narrow. The revolving striae are fine and close. The color is pale orange-brown, the body whorl shows a narrow white band, the suture is ornamented with white spots. (described as Clathurella amabilis). ^[3]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Mauritius, Southeast Asia; Indonesia; the Philippines and Papua New Guinea.

References

1. Tritonoturris amabilis (Hinds, 1843) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 5 April 2010.
2. Powell A.W.B.(1966) The molluscan families Speightiidae and Turridae: an evaluation of the valid taxa, both recent and fossil, with lists of characteristic species; Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum ; no. 5.
3. G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

• Severns, M. (2011). Shells of the Hawaiian Islands - The Sea Shells. Conchbooks, Hackenheim. 564 pp
• Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp

External links

• Adams H. (1869). Description of a new genus and fourteen new species of marine shells. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1869): 272–275, pl. 19
• Brazier, J. 1876. A list of the Pleurotomidae collected during the Chevert expedition, with the description of the new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1: 151–162
• Kay, E. A. (1979). Hawaiian marine shells. Reef and shore fauna of Hawaii. Section 4: Mollusca. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publications. 64xviii + 1–653
• Moretzsohn, Fabio, and E. Alison Kay. "HAWAIIAN MARINE MOLLUSCS." (1995)
• Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
• Gastropods.com: Tritonoturris amabilis