Turritella cingulifera

Turritella cingulifera
Apertural view of a shell Turritella cingulifera
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily:	Cerithioidea
Family:	Turritellidae
Subfamily:	Turritellinae
Genus:	Turritella
Subgenus:	Kurosioia[1]
Species:	T. cingulifera
Binomial name
Turritella cingulifera G. B. Sowerby I, 1825
Synonyms[1]
Torcula parva Angas, 1877 Turritella bicolor Adams & Reeve, 1850 Turritella fascialis Menke, 1830 Turritella fragilis Kiener, 1873 Turritella fuscotincta Petit, 1853 Turritella gracillima Gould, 1861 Turritella tricarinata King, 1832 nec Brocchi 1814 (secondary homonyme, not to be confused with the species described by Brocchi) Haustator (Kurosioia) cingulata sensu Okutani, 1975 Turritella parva Angas, 1877 Haustator cingulifera[2] Haustator (Kurosioia) cingulifera

Turritella cingulifera is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turritellidae.^[3]

It is placed either in subgenus Kurosioia or Haustator.

Distribution

This marine species is found in the sublittoral zone of Australian waters, the Indo-Pacific Region and the East China Sea.

Description

The slender conical shell is whitish to yellowish brown with a chestnut band next to the suture. The shell sometimes has undulating, transverse chestnut lines or a central chestnut band made up of two or three close parallel lines on the body whorl. The shell has about twelve whorls. They are contracted between the deep suture and then rounded with a number of thin, elevated, spiral striae. The length of the shell is 1,90 cm (.75 inch).^[4]

abapertural view of the shell

References

1. "Turritella (Kurosioia) cingulifera Sowerby 1825". The Paleobiology Database, accessed 9 January 2011.
2. "Haustator cingulifera". OBIS.
3. Turritella cingulifera G.B. Sowerby I, 1825.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 May 2010.
4. Tryon G. W. (1886). Manual of Conchology 8: 198.

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