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| Tropaeas subulata (A. Adams, 1853) | |
Tropaeas subulata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies. [1]
The whitish, somewhat shining shell is smooth and pellucid. The length of the shell is 9.5 mm. Its apex is mucronate. The whorls of the teleoconch are plano-convex, strongly longitudinally costate, and with punctate interstices. The columella is uniplicate in the middle. The aperture is produced and subchanneled below. The shell is umbilicated. [2]
This marine species occurs in the Red Sea, off the Philippines and off Japan.
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