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Cheungbeia laterculata

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Cheungbeia laterculata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Cheungbeia
Species:
C. laterculata
Binomial name
Cheungbeia laterculata
(G. B. Sowerby II, 1870)
Synonyms[1]
  • Drillia laterculata Schepman 1913
  • Inquisitor laterculata (G. B. Sowerby II, 1870)
  • Inquisitor zonata (non Reeve, 1843): Chang and Wu 2000
  • Pleurotoma laterculata G. B. Sowerby II, 1870 (original combination)

Cheungbeia laterculata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies[1]

Description

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The length of the shell attains 22 mm, its diameter 7.5 mm.

Distribution

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This species occurs in the China Seas, off Vietnam, Southeast India and off the Gulf of Carpentaria to Queensland, Australia

References

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  1. ^ a b MolluscaBase (2018). Cheungbeia laterculata (G. B. Sowerby II, 1870). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1056323 on 2 June 2018
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  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
  • Image of Cheungbeia laterculata; Li, Bao Quan, Kilburn, Richard N. and Li, Xin Zheng(2010) 'Report on Crassispirinae Morrison, 1966(Mollusca: Neogastropoda: Turridae) from the China Seas', Journal of Natural History, 44: 11, 699–740