Lophiotoma acuta

Lophiotoma acuta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Turridae
Subfamily: Turrinae
Genus: Lophiotoma
Species: L. acuta
Binomial name
Lophiotoma acuta
(Perry, 1811)
Synonyms[1]
  • Lophiotoma (Lophiotoma) notata Sowerby, G.B. III, 1889
  • Lophiotoma (Lophiotoma) tigrina Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de, 1822
  • Lophiotoma microsticta Casey, T.L., 1904
  • Pleurotoma acuta PerryG., 1811
  • Pleurotoma jickelii Weinkauff, H.C. & W. Kobelt, 1875
  • Pleurotoma picturata Weinkauff, H.C. & W. Kobelt, 1876
  • Pleurotoma punctata Schubert, H.G. & A.J. Wagner, 1829
  • Pleurotoma variegata Reeve, L.A., 1843
  • Turris peaseana Dunker, R.W., 1871

Lophiotoma acuta , common name : the marbled turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids.[1]

There is one subspecies : Lophiotoma acuta jickelii

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Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 30 mm and 90 mm.

The fusiform shell is less carinated and has more rounded revolving ribs than other species in this genus. The sutures are characterized by large spots and smaller ones elsewhere, coalescing into longitudinal streaks. [2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean and in the Indo-West Pacific along the Philippines, Japan and Hong Kong.

References

  1. ^ a b Lophiotoma acuta (Perry, 1811).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=217113 on 10 July 2011.
  2. ^ George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology VI, p. 170; 1884