Toxiclionella tumida
| Toxiclionella tumida | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Clavatulidae |
| Genus: | Toxiclionella |
| Species: | T. tumida
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| Binomial name | |
| Toxiclionella tumida (G.B. Sowerby II, 1870)
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Toxiclionella tumida is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.[1][2]
Description
[edit]The shell grows to a length of 60 mm. The thick shell is subfusiform. The ground color of the shell is light green, with a reddish tone between the arcuate, opisthocline ribs and with a thick, olive-brown periostracum. The acuminate, orthoconic spire ends abruptly in a large blunt protoconch. The whorls are slightly convex. The outer lip shows a thick callus and parietal tubercle. The anal sinus in this species is very wide and rather shallow. The pear-shaped aperture is relatively large. The broad siphonal canal is unnotched and of moderate length. The subsutural cord is strong and more tumid than in Toxiclionella haliplex.[3][4]
Distribution
[edit]This marine species occurs along the Agulhas Bank, South Africa.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Toxiclionella tumida (Sowerby II, 1870). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 April 2010.
- ^ P. Bouchet; Yu. I. Kantor; A. Sysoev & N. Puillandre (2011). "A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda)". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77 (3): 273–308. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr017.
- ^ Sowerby, G. B. II, "Descriptions of forty-eight new species of shells." Proceedings of the Zoological society of London. Vol.XVIII p. 253. 1870
- ^ Kilburn RN (1985), Turridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 2. Subfamily Clavatulinae; Annals of the Natal Museum, 1985
- Kilburn, R.N. (1985). Turridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 2. Subfamily Clavatulinae. Ann. Natal Mus. 26(2), 417-470
External links
[edit]- "Toxiclionella (Toxiclionella) tumida". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 27 August 2011.