Lophiotoma acuta

Lophiotoma acuta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Turridae
Subfamily:	Turrinae
Genus:	Lophiotoma
Species:	L. acuta
Binomial name
Lophiotoma acuta (Perry, 1811)
Synonyms[1]
Lophiotoma (Lophiotoma) notata Sowerby, G.B. III, 1889 Lophiotoma (Lophiotoma) tigrina Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de, 1822 Lophiotoma microsticta Casey, T.L., 1904 Pleurotoma acuta PerryG., 1811 Pleurotoma jickelii Weinkauff, H.C. & W. Kobelt, 1875 Pleurotoma picturata Weinkauff, H.C. & W. Kobelt, 1876 Pleurotoma punctata Schubert, H.G. & A.J. Wagner, 1829 Pleurotoma variegata Reeve, L.A., 1843 Turris peaseana Dunker, R.W., 1871

Lophiotoma acuta, commonly known as the marbled turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids.^[1]

There is one subspecies, Lophiotoma acuta jickelii

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 30 mm and 90 mm.

The fusiform shell is less carinated and has more rounded revolving ribs than other species in this genus. The sutures are characterized by large spots and smaller ones elsewhere, coalescing into longitudinal streaks. ^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean and in the Indo-West Pacific along the Philippines, Japan and Hong Kong.

References

1. Lophiotoma acuta (Perry, 1811).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 10 July 2011.
2. George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology VI, p. 170; 1884

• 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.

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