Tritonoturris secta

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

Tritonoturris secta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Tritonoturris
Species:
T. secta
Binomial name
Tritonoturris secta
(Sowerby, G.B. II, 1870)
Synonyms

Defrancia secta Sowerby, G.B. II, 1870

Description

The length of the shell attains 20 mm, its diameter 6.9 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the South China Sea.

References
  1. Baoquan Li& Xinzheng Li & Richard N. Kilburn, Report on the genus Tritonoturris s. l., (Gastropoda: Conoidea) from the South China Sea; Journal of Conchology 40(Part 2) · April 2010
  • Sowerby G.B. 1870 - Descriptions of forty-eight new species of shells. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1870: 249–259, pls 21–22
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
  • Gastropods.com: Tritonoturris secta
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