Haedropleura continua

Haedropleura continua
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Horaiclavidae
Genus:	Haedropleura
Species:	H. continua
Binomial name
	Haedropleura continua; (Melvill, J.C. & R. Standen, 1903)
Synonyms
	Drillia continua Melvill, J.C. & R. Standen, 1903

Haedropleura continua is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Horaiclavidae.^[1]

Description

The length of the fusiform shell attains 10 mm, its diameter 3.75 mm. It contains 10½ whorls, of which 1½ in the protoconch.

This species is conspicuous for its exactly continuous longitudinal ribs, those of whorl succeeding whorl descending in a perfectly straight line to the base. These whorls are slightly once-angled beyond the centre. The whole surface is white, with a slight ochreous tinge, and smooth

Distribution

This species occurs in the Persian Gulf.

References

^ Melvill & Standen (1903), Descriptions of 68 new gastropoda from the Red Sea, the Gulf of Oman and the Northern Arabian Sea; The Annals and magazine of natural history 7th ser. v. 12 (1903)

External links

Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.

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[1] Melvill & Standen (1903), Descriptions of 68 new gastropoda from the Red Sea, the Gulf of Oman and the Northern Arabian Sea; The Annals and magazine of natural history 7th ser. v. 12 (1903)

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