Turricula catena

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Turricula catena
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Apertural view of a shell of Turricula catena (museum specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Clavatulidae
Genus: Turricula
Species:
T. catena
Binomial name
Turricula catena
(Reeve, 1843)
Synonyms [1]
  • Pleurotoma catenaReeve, 1843

Turricula catena is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae. [1] [2]

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Description

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea.

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References

  1. 1 2 Turricula catena . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 4 April 2010.
  2. P. Bouchet; Yu. I. Kantor; A. Sysoev & N. Puillandre (2011). "A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda)". Journal of Molluscan Studies . 77 (3): 273–308. doi: 10.1093/mollus/eyr017 .