Tropidoturris fossata

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Tropidoturris fossata
Tropidoturris fossata notialis 001.jpg
Apertural view of a shell of the subspecies Tropidoturris fossata notialis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Borsoniidae
Genus: Tropidoturris
Species:
T. fossata
Binomial name
Tropidoturris fossata
(Sowerby III, 1903)
Synonyms [1]
  • Drillia fossata(G.B. Sowerby III, 1903)
  • Pleurotoma fossataSowerby III, 1903 (original combination)
  • Tropidoturris fossata fossata(Sowerby III, 1903) · accepted, alternate representation

Tropidoturris fossata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae. [1]

Contents

There is one subspecies: Tropidoturris fossata notialisKilburn, 1986

Description

The size of the shell attains 20.4 mm.

(Original description) The fusiform shell is acuminated at both ends. Its color is pale fulvous, obscurely spotted with brown, here and there tinged with light purple, and coloured anteriorly with a purplish band. The spire is acute, gradately turreted. It contains 8 whorls. The first two are smooth, rounded, forming a papillary apex. The third is angular and ribbed below the angle. The rest is deeply concave at the top, the concavity being bordered by a sharp erect keel, below which the whorls are slightly convex, with short very oblique plicae, and about 5 spiral lirae which are sharply angular at the top and slopingly compressed on the under side. The body whorl ais bout equal in length to the spire, slightly convex above, and tapering to the base. The oblique plicae against the keel become almost obsolete on the latter half of the whorl, while the spiral lirae numbering about 22 are quite as deep and broad as those on the upper whorls. The aperture is oblong, moderately wide, without any definite anterior siphonal canal. The outer lip is thin, with rather a broad sinus at the juncture of the whorl.

The shell shows a distinct character, quite unlike any other known species. The sharp erect keel at the top of the whorls, the broad channel between this and the suture, and the numerous curiously sloping spiral lirae throughout, are its chief characteristics. [2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Zululand, South Africa

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References

  1. 1 2 WoRMS (2015). Tropidoturris fossata. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=435086 on 2016-04-05
  2. ↑ G.B. Sowerby III (1904) Mollusca of South Africa; Marine investigations in South Africa , v. 2 (1904)
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