Turricula javana

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Turricula javana
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Apertural view of a shell of Turricula javana
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Clavatulidae
Genus: Turricula
Species:
T. javana
Binomial name
Turricula javana
Synonyms [1]
  • Murex javanusLinnaeus, 1767 (basionym)
  • Murex turrisGmelin, 1791
  • Pleurotoma contortaG. Perry, 1811
  • Pleurotoma javanaLamarck, 1816
  • Pleurotoma nodiferaLamarck, 1822
  • Pleurotoma spuriaLink, 1807
  • Surcula javana(Linnaeus, 1767)
  • Turricula flammeaSchumacher, 1817
  • Turris nodifera(Lamarck, 1822) (combination of M.Smith, 1940)

Turricula javana, common name the Java turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae. [1] [2]

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Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 35 mm and 70 mm. The whorls are angular and tuberculated in the middle. These tubercles develop from more or less indistinct oblique folds or ribs, everywhere closely encircled by striae. The color of the shell is light yellowish brown, the tubercles lighter. [3]

Distribution

This marine species has a wide distribution going from East Africa and Pakistan to Queensland, Australia; off Vietnam and in the South China Sea.

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References

  1. 1 2 Turricula javana (Lamarck, 1816) . 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 .
  3. George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 237; 1884 (described as Surcula javana)