Turbonilla gracillima

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Turbonilla gracillima
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Drawing of a shell of Turbonilla gracillima
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Family: Pyramidellidae
Genus: Turbonilla
Species:
T. gracillima
Binomial name
Turbonilla gracillima
(Carpenter, 1857) [1]
Synonyms
  • Chemnitzia gracillima Carpenter, 1856 (basionym)
  • Turbonilla (Pyrgiscus) gracillima (Carpenter, 1857)

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

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Description

The milk-white shell is very slender and acute, milk-white. Its length measures 3 mm. The whorls of the protoconch are prolonged, but partly lost. The eight whorls of the teleoconch are well rounded at first, and later flattened. They are moderately contracted at the periphery and slightly shouldered at the summit. They are marked by slender, almost vertical, axial ribs, of which 12 occur upon the first, 14 upon the second and third, 16 upon the fourth, 18 upon the fifth and penultimate turn. The intercostal spaces are as broad as the ribs, terminating suddenly at the periphery. They are crossed by about fourteen equal and equally spaced spiral pits, which are equal to the spaces which separate them. The periphery and the base of the body whorl are well rounded, and smooth without sculpture. The aperture is rhomboidal. The posterior angle is obtuse. The outer lip is thin. The columella is slender, and somewhat twisted. [4]

Distribution

The type specimen was found in the Pacific Ocean off Mazatlán, Baja California.

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References

  1. ↑ Carpenter, Cat. Mazatlan Shells, 1856, p. 431
  2. ↑ WoRMS (2011). Turbonilla gracillima (Carpenter, 1857). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=576025 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
  4. ↑ Dall & Bartsch (1909), A Monograph of West American Pyramidellid Mollusks, United States National Museum, bulletin 68
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