Tomopleura dilecta

Tomopleura dilecta
Original drawing of a shell of Tomopleura dilecta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Borsoniidae
Genus: Tomopleura
Species: T. dilecta
Binomial name
Tomopleura dilecta
(Hedley, 1903)
Synonyms[1]
  • Asthenotoma dilecta May, W.L. 1921
  • Drillia dilecta Hedley, 1903 (original combination)
  • Drillia dilecta parabolo Verco, J.C. 1909
  • Filodrillia dilecta (Hedley, 1903)

Tomopleura dilecta, common name the beloved turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 7 mm, its width 2.5 mm.

(Original description) The small, solid, pale yellow shell has a narrowly fusiform shape. it is tricarinate. The shoulder is sloping; The base of the shell is contracted. The siphonal canal is short and straight. The shell contains 5 whorls, of which two in the smooth, elevated protoconch. The body whorl contains three peripheral spiral keels. There are two such keels on each whorl of the teleoconch.Revolving threads occur in great numbers on the base and three or four on the shoulder. The interstices of the spirals are occupied by the broken lengths of close, fine, longitudinal, raised threads, which united described a double curve. The aperture is simple but probably underdeveloped in the specimens at hand. [2]

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off New South Wales and South Australia

References

  1. 1 2 WoRMS (2015). Tomopleura dilecta. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=432883 on 2016-03-27
  2. Hedley, C. 1903. Scientific results of the trawling expedition of H.M.C.S. "Thetis" off the coast of New South Wales in February and March, 1898. Mollusca. Part II. Scaphopoda and Gastropoda. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 4(6): 325-402, pls 36-37

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