Tritonoturris menecharmes

Tritonoturris menecharmes is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.[1]

Subspecies
  • Tritonoturris menecharmes albescens Melvill, 1923

Tritonoturris menecharmes
Original image of a shell (and the protoconch) of Tritonoturris menecharmes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Tritonoturris
Species:
T. menecharmes
Binomial name
Tritonoturris menecharmes
(J.C. Melvill, 1923)
Synonyms[1]

Veprecula menecharmes Melvill, 1923

Description

The length of the shell varies between 8 mm and 30 mm.

(Original description) The delicate, turreted shell has an pale ochreous-brown color, or is (var. albescens) pure white. The shell contains 8-9 whorls. The protoconch itself is globular, plain, the next beautifully but microscopically cancellate, the remainder longitudinally acutely costate, angled above. They are crossed by, in full-grown specimens, on the upper whorls, two, on the body whorl four, spiral raised ribs. The interstitial spacesare quadrate, smooth and acutely echinate at the points of junction. The number of the ribs on the body whorl is eleven to twelve. The aperture is oblong. The outer lip is incrassate, without 5-echinate, within obscurely denticulate. The sinus is fairly broad and conspicuous. The, columellar margin is straight and multiplicate. The siphonal canal is abbreviate and slightly recurved.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Mauritius, Taiwan and the Philippines.

References
  1. Tritonoturris menecharmes (Melvill, 1923). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 April 2010.
  2. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London v. 14-15 (1923)
  • Drivas, J.; Jay, M. (1987). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'Île Maurice. Collection Les Beautés de la Nature. Delachaux et Niestlé: Neuchâtel. ISBN 2-603-00654-1. 159 pp.
  • Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
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