Turricula catena

Turricula catena
Apertural view of a shell of Turricula catena (museum specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Clavatulidae
Genus: Turricula
Species: T. catena
Binomial name
Turricula catena
Synonyms[1]

Pleurotoma catena Reeve, 1843

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

This is a species that needs further investigation (species inquerenda)

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea.

References

  1. 1 2 Turricula catena .  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species 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.
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