Turris babylonia
| Turris babylonia | |
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| a shell of Turris babylonia | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Turridae |
| Subfamily: | Turrinae |
| Genus: | Turris |
| Species: | T. babylonia |
| Binomial name | |
| Turris babylonia (Linne, 1758) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Turris babylonia, common name: the Babylon turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids.[1]
Description
The size of an adultshell varies between 63 mm and 100 mm.
The shell shows somewhat angular whorls, caused by the greater prominence of one of the revolving ribs. Its sculpture shows large revolving ribs, with intermediate raised lines. The color of the shell is whitish, with large dark brown or nearly black spots upon the ribs. [2]
Distribution
This species is distributed in the Pacific Ocean along the Philippines, Indonesia, the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Timor; in the Indian Ocean off Mauritius and the Mascarene Basin.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Turris babylonia (Linne, 1758). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 10 July 2011.
- ↑ George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology VI, p. 168; 1884
- Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice
- Rosenberg, G. 1992. Encyclopedia of Seashells. Dorset: New York. 224 pp. page(s): 103
- Olivera B.M., Seronay R.A. & Fedosov A.E. (2010) Turris babylonia; re-evaluation of a species complex and description of Turris assyria, new species. Philippine Science Letters 3:46-58
- Kilburn R.N., Fedosov A.E. & Olivera B.M. (2012) Revision of the genus Turris Batsch, 1789 (Gastropoda: Conoidea: Turridae) with the description of six new species. Zootaxa 3244: 1-58.