Turbonilla doredona

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Turbonilla doredona
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Drawing of a shell of Turbonilla doredona
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Family: Pyramidellidae
Genus: Turbonilla
Species:
T. doredona
Binomial name
Turbonilla doredona
Bartsch, 1917 [1]
Synonyms

Turbonilla (Strioturbonilla) doredona Bartsch, 1917

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

Description

The yellowish white shell has a very regularly, and broadly elongate conic shape. Its length measures 4.2 mm. The 2¾ clear and smooth whorls of the protoconch are strongly rounded. They form a strongly elevated spire having its axis at right angles to that of the succeeding turns, in the first of which the side of the last revolution is about one-fifth immersed. The eight whorl of the teleoconch are well rounded. They are slightly curved at the appressed summit. They are marked by rather distantly spaced, slender, narrow, well-rounded axial ribs, which become somewhat flattened and enfeebled toward the summit. Of these ribs 18 occur upon the first, 16 upon the second to fourth, and 18 upon the remaining turns. Intercostal spaces about two and one-half times as wide as the ribs, terminating at little posterior to the suture, thus leaving a very narrow plain band between their termination and the summit of the succeeding turn. The sutures are moderately constricted. The periphery of the body whorl of the adolescent specimen is well rounded. The base of the shell is short, and strongly rounded. It is marked by the feeble continuations of the axial ribs, which become evanescent before reaching the middle of the base. It is quite possible that when adult specimens are obtained it will be found that the axial ribs terminate at the periphery instead of continuing feebly upon the base. The entire surface of the shell crossed by rather marked, subequally strong and subequally spaced deeply incised spiral striations. The aperture is subquadrate. The posterior angle is obtuse. The outer lip is partly fractured. The inner lip is thick, almost straight, and somewhat revolute. It is provided with an obsolete oblique fold a little anterior to its insertion. The parietal wall is glazed by a fine callus. [1]

Distribution

The type specimen was found off Magdalena Bay, Baja California.

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References

  1. 1 2 P. Bartsch (1917), Descriptions of new west American marine mollusks and notes on previously described forms; Proceedings of the United States National Museum, vol.52; ISSN   0096-3801; p.612-613
  2. WoRMS (2011). Turbonilla doredona Bartsch, 1917. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=576007 on 2012-03-01
  3. Keen M. (1971). Sea shells of Tropical West America. Marine mollusks from Baja California to Perú. (2nd edit.). Stanford University Press pp. 1064