Turritella cingulifera

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Turritella cingulifera
Haustator cingulifera 001.jpg
Apertural view of a shell Turritella cingulifera
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Family: Turritellidae
Genus: Turritella
Species:
T. cingulifera
Binomial name
Turritella cingulifera
Synonyms [1]
  • Haustator (Kurosioia) cingulatasensu Okutani, 1975
  • Haustator cingulifera [2]
  • Haustator (Kurosioia) cingulifera
  • Torcula parvaAngas, 1877
  • Turritella (Haustator) canaliculataAdams & Reeve, 1850
  • Turritella (Haustator) cinguliferaG. B. Sowerby I, 1825
  • Turritella (Haustator) multilirataAdams & Reeve, 1850
  • Turritella canaliculataAdams & Reeve in Reeve, 1849
  • Turritella fascialisMenke, 1830
  • Turritella fragilisKiener, 1873
  • Turritella fuscotinctaPetit, 1853
  • Turritella gracillimaGould, 1861
  • Turritella multilirataAdams & Reeve in Reeve, 1849
  • Turritella noumeensisG. B. Sowerby III, 1914
  • Turritella parva(Angas, 1877)
  • Turritella tricarinataKing, 1832 nec Brocchi 1814 (secondary homonym, not to be confused with the species described by Brocchi)

Turritella cingulifera is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turritellidae. [3]

Contents

It is placed either in subgenus Kurosioia or Haustator.[ clarification needed ]

Distribution

This marine species is found in the sublittoral zone of Australian waters, the Indo-Pacific Region and the East China Sea.

Description

The slender conical shell is whitish to yellowish brown with a chestnut band next to the suture. The shell sometimes has undulating, transverse chestnut lines or a central chestnut band made up of two or three close parallel lines on the body whorl. The shell has about twelve whorls. They are contracted between the deep suture and then rounded with a number of thin, elevated, spiral striae. The length of the shell is 1,90 cm (.75-inch). [4]

abapertural view of the shell Haustator cingulifera 002.jpg
abapertural view of the shell

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