Turcica monilifera

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Turcica monilifera
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Drawing with an apertural view of a shell of Turcica monilifera
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Seguenzioidea
Family: Eucyclidae
Genus: Turcica
Species:
T. monilifera
Binomial name
Turcica monilifera
A. Adams, 1854
Synonyms [1]
  • Turcica coreensisPease, 1860

Turcica monilifera is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eucyclidae. [1] [2]

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Description

The size of the shell varies between 10 mm and 30 mm. The thin shell is conoidal, subdiaphanous and imperforate. Its color is, tawny golden-shining. The whorls are a little convex. They are sculptured with spiral beaded cinguli. Their interstices are obliquely striate. The sutures are canaliculate. The base of the shell is convex, with granose cinguli, some granules marked with brown. The aperture is suborbicular. The columella is spiral above, produced into a tooth below. The margin of the lip is acute and lirate inside. [3]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Philippines, Japan and in Moreton Bay, Australia.

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References

  1. 1 2 Turcica monilifera A. Adams, 1854 .  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 18 December 2018.
  2. Poppe G.T., Tagaro S.P. & Dekker H. (2006) The Seguenziidae, Chilodontidae, Trochidae, Calliostomatidae and Solariellidae of the Philippine Islands. Visaya Supplement 2: 1-228.
  3. Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia