Turbonilla amoena

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Turbonilla amoena
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Family: Pyramidellidae
Genus: Turbonilla
Species:
T. amoena
Binomial name
Turbonilla amoena
(Monterosato, 1878)
Synonyms [1]
  • Chrysallida brevicula(Jeffreys, 1883)
  • Odostomia (Turbonilla) venustaMonterosato, 1875
  • Odostomia amoenaMonterosato, 1878 (original combination)
  • Odostomia breviculaJeffreys, 1883 (invalid: junior homonym of Odostomia breviculaA. Adams, 1861)
  • Odostomia compressa(Jeffreys, 1884)
  • Odostomia venustaMonterosato, 1875 (Invalid: junior secondary homonym of Turbonilla venustaIssel, 1869; Odostomia amoena is a replacement name)
  • Pyrgulina abbreviataMonterosato, 1884
  • Turbonilla compressa(Jeffreys, 1884)

Turbonilla amoena is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies. [1] [2] [3]

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Distribution

This species occurs in the following locations: [1]

Description

(Original description of Odostomia brevicula, Jeffreys, 1883) The conical shell is solid, opaque, and glossy. The sculpture is short, strong, straight. It shows rather sharp longitudinal ribs, of which there are about a dozen on the body whorl. They terminate abruptly at the periphery, which is bluntly angulated. The interstices of the ribs have an excavated appearance. Under the microscope the whole surface is covered lengthwise with very fine and close-set striae. The apex is quite smooth and polished. The colour is clear white. The spire is short. It contains four whorls (besides the bulbous and eterostrophe[ spelling? ] embryonic nucleus), compressed, and gradually enlarging. The body whorl is almost equal to half the spire. The suture is shallow and nearly straight. The aperture is oval, pointed at the base. The columella is curved. The tooth is small and indistinct, tubercular, placed on the upper part of the columella. There is no umbilicus. [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Turbonilla amoena (Monterosato, 1878) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 4 January 2019.
  2. ↑ Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180-213
  3. ↑ Rolán E., 2005. Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda.
  4. ↑ Jeffreys J.G., 1883. Mediterranean Mollusca (No. 3) and other Invertebrata. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5, 11: 393-401
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