Turritriton
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Turritriton is a genus of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Ranellidae, the family commonly known as the tritons.
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[edit] Distribution
Tropical and subtropical Indo-Pacific oceans, western America, and the Caribbean.
[edit] Description
The shell is solid, prominently variced, axially costate between, and the whole overridden by a few strong, medially grooved, prominent spiral cords. The protoconch is tall, narrow, polygyrate and smooth. The siphonal canal is moderately long and recurved. The aperture is small. The outer lip is heavily variced externally, and dentate within, and the inner lip has a parietal tubercle and several columella plicae.
[edit] Species in the genus Turritriton
- Turritriton gibbosum
- Turritriton klenei
- Turritriton labiosus (Wood, 1828)
- Turritriton lineatum
- Turritriton loebbeckii
- Turritriton suroabditus
- Turritriton tabulatus exaratus (Reeve, 1844)
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[edit] External links
- Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
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