Turricula javana

Turricula javana
Drawing of Turricula javana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Clavatulidae
Genus: Turricula
Species: T. javana
Binomial name
Turricula javana
(Linnaeus, 1767)
Synonyms[1]
  • Murex javanus Linnaeus, 1767 (basionym)
  • Murex turris Gmelin, 1791
  • Pleurotoma contorta G. Perry, 1811
  • Pleurotoma javana Lamarck, 1816
  • Pleurotoma nodifera Lamarck, 1822
  • Pleurotoma spuria Link, 1807
  • Turricula flammea Schumacher, 1817

Turricula javana, common name the Java turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.[1][2]

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Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 35 mm and 70 mm. The whorls are angular and tuberculated in the middle. These tubercles develop from more or less indistinct oblique folds or ribs, everywhere closely encircled by striae. The color of the shell is light yellowish brown, the tubercles lighter.[3]

Distribution

This marine species has a wide distribution going from East Africa and Pakistan to Queensland, Australia and the South China Sea.

References

  1. ^ a b Turricula javana (Lamarck, 1816).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=435104 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. 
  3. ^ George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 237; 1884 (described as Surcula javana)

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