Turritella cingulifera

Turritella cingulifera
	Apertural view of a shell Turritella cingulifera
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Family:	Turritellidae
Genus:	Turritella
Species:	T. cingulifera
Binomial name
	Turritella cingulifera; G. B. Sowerby I, 1825
Synonyms
	Haustator (Kurosioia) cingulata sensu Okutani, 1975; Haustator cingulifera; Haustator (Kurosioia) cingulifera; Torcula parva Angas, 1877; Turritella (Haustator) canaliculata Adams & Reeve, 1850; Turritella (Haustator) cingulifera G. B. Sowerby I, 1825; Turritella (Haustator) multilirata Adams & Reeve, 1850; Turritella canaliculata Adams & Reeve in Reeve, 1849; Turritella fascialis Menke, 1830; Turritella fragilis Kiener, 1873; Turritella fuscotincta Petit, 1853; Turritella gracillima Gould, 1861; Turritella multilirata Adams & Reeve in Reeve, 1849; Turritella noumeensis G. B. Sowerby III, 1914; Turritella parva (Angas, 1877); Turritella tricarinata King, 1832 nec Brocchi 1814 (secondary homonym, not to be confused with the species described by Brocchi);

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.^{[clarification needed]}

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]

References

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

Sowerby, G. B., I. 1825. A catalogue of the shells contained in the collection of the late Earl of Tankerville, arranged according to the Lamarckian conchological system; together with an appendix, containing descriptions of many new species. London: E. J, available online at https://books.google.com/books?id=TXqqeuJUQygC page(s): p. 56 + Appendix p. 14
Gould, A.A. (1861) Description of new shells collected by the United States North Pacific Exploring Expedition. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 7: 382–389; 400–409. page(s): 386
Garrard, T. A. (1972) A revision of Australian Recent and Tertiary Turritellidae (Gastropoda, Mollusca), J. Malac. Soc. Aust., 2(3): 267-338

External links

"Turritella cingulifera". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.

[1] "Haustator cingulifera". OBIS.

[paleodb_2011-2] "Turritella (Kurosioia) cingulifera Sowerby 1825". The Paleobiology Database, accessed 9 January 2011.

[WoRMS-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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