Turricula catena

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

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

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

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea.

References
  1. 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.
  • Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp


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