Typhlomangelia nivalis
Typhlomangelia nivalis | |
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Drawing of Typhlomangelia nivalis | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Borsoniidae [1] |
Genus: | Typhlomangelia |
Species: | T. nivalis |
Binomial name | |
Typhlomangelia nivalis (Lovén, 1846) | |
Synonyms[2] | |
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Typhlomangelia nivalis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.[2]
Description
The size of an adult shell varies between 12 mm and 27 mm. The turreted, white shell has a long spire with ten whorls. The periphery is tuberculated longitudinally. The ribs which give rise to them are very short. The shell is covered by close revolving striae. The shoulder of the whorls are slanting.[3]
Distribution
This species occurs in the Mediterranean Sea and in the Atlantic Ocean along the British Isles, Iceland, Norway, Spain, Portugal, the Azores, Senegal
References
- ↑ Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273-308.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Typhlomangelia nivalis (Lovén, 1846). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 15 August 2011.
- ↑ George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 223; 1884
- Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
- Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180-213
- Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.