Turricula ceylonica

Turricula ceylonica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Clavatulidae
Genus: Turricula
Species: T. ceylonica
Binomial name
Turricula ceylonica
(Smith E. A., 1877)
Synonyms[1]

Pleurotoma ceylonica Smith E. A., 1877

Turricula ceylonica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.[1] [2]

Contents

Description

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean along Sri Lanka.

References

  1. ^ a b Turricula ceylonica (Smith E. A., 1877).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=435100 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.