Typhlomangelia lincta

Last updated

Typhlomangelia lincta
Scientific classification Red Pencil Icon.png
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Borsoniidae
Genus: Typhlomangelia
Species:T. lincta
Binomial name
Typhlomangelia lincta
(Watson, 1881)
Synonyms [1]

Pleurotoma linctaWatson, 1881

Typhlomangelia lincta is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae. [1]

Sea snail common name for snails that normally live in saltwater

Sea snail is a common name for snails that normally live in salt water, in other words marine gastropods. The taxonomic class Gastropoda also includes snails that live in other habitats, such as land snails and freshwater snails. Many species of sea snails are edible and exploited as food sources by humans.

Family is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy; it is classified between order and genus. A family may be divided into subfamilies, which are intermediate ranks between the ranks of family and genus. The official family names are Latin in origin; however, popular names are often used: for example, walnut trees and hickory trees belong to the family Juglandaceae, but that family is commonly referred to as being the "walnut family".

Borsoniidae family of molluscs

Borsoniidae is a monophyletic family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.

Contents

Description

The shell grows to a length of 12 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

Puerto Rico Unincorporated territory of the United States

Puerto Rico, officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and briefly called Porto Rico, is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the northeast Caribbean Sea, approximately 1,000 miles (1,600 km) southeast of Miami, Florida.

Virgin Islands Island group of the Caribbean Leeward Islands

The Virgin Islands are geologically and biogeographically the easternmost part of the Greater Antilles, the northern islands belonging to the Puerto Rican Bank and St. Croix being a displaced part of the same geologic structure. Politically, the British Virgin Islands have been governed as the western island group of the Leeward Islands, which are the northern part of the Lesser Antilles, and form the border between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. The archipelago is separated from the true Lesser Antilles by the Anegada Passage and from the main island of Puerto Rico by the Virgin Passage.

Related Research Articles

Typhlomangelia cariosa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.

Typhlomangelia fluctuosa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.

Typhlomangelia maldivica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.

Typhlomangelia nivalis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.

Typhlomangelia polythele is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.

Typhlomangelia pyrrha is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.

<i>Pleurotomella</i> genus of molluscs

Pleurotomella is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae.

<i>Typhlodaphne</i> genus of molluscs

Typhlodaphne is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Borsoniidae.

<i>Aoteadrillia</i> genus of molluscs

Aoteadrillia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Horaiclavidae.

<i>Aforia</i> genus of molluscs

Aforia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cochlespiridae.

<i>Suavodrillia</i> genus of molluscs

Suavodrillia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Borsoniidae.

Typhlomangelia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Borsoniidae, the cone snails and their allies.

<i>Benthomangelia</i> genus of molluscs

Benthomangelia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.

Onoba lincta is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.

<i>Onoba</i> (gastropod) genus of molluscs

Onoba is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Rissoidae.

Typhlomangelia magna is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Borsoniidae.

Typhlomangelia nodosolirata is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Borsoniidae.

Typhlomangelia powelli is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.

Typhlomangelia vexilliformis is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.

References

  1. 1 2 Typhlomangelia lincta (Watson, 1881) .  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 15 August 2011.


This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.