Tropaeas subulata

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Tropaeas subulata
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Drawing of a shell of Tropaeas subulata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
Superfamily:
Pyramidelloidea
Family:
Pyramidellidae
Genus:
Tropaeas
Species:
T. subulata
Binomial name
Tropaeas subulata
(A. Adams, 1853)

Tropaeas subulata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.[1]

Description[]

The whitish, somewhat shining shell is smooth and pellucid. The length of the shell is 9.5 mm. Its apex is mucronate. The whorls of the teleoconch are plano-convex, strongly longitudinally costate, and with punctate interstices. The columella is uniplicate in the middle. The aperture is produced and subchanneled below. The shell is umbilicated.[2]

Distribution[]

This marine species occurs in the Red Sea, off the Philippines and off Japan.

References[]

  1. ^ Rosenberg, G. (2011). Tropaeas subulata (A. Adams, 1853). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=588567 on 2012-01-12
  2. ^ G.W. Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VIII p. 310; 1886

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