Turbonilla lactea | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Family: | Pyramidellidae |
Genus: | Turbonilla |
Species: | T. lactea |
Binomial name | |
Turbonilla lactea (Linnaeus, 1758) | |
Synonyms [1] | |
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Turbonilla lactea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
The length of the shell varies between 3 mm and 8 mm. The shell consists of almost straight-sided whorls with deep, flat sutures. Its shell, marked with "thick, flat, slightly sinuous, oblique costae" that are "indistinct on the first whorl" and prominent thereafter, has a milky-white colour, on which the Turbonilla lactea species name is based. [6] [7]
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This species occurs in the following locations: [1]
Additional information regarding this species: [1]