Xenuroturris millepunctata

Xenuroturris millepunctata
	Shell of Xenuroturris millepunctata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Turridae
Genus:	Xenuroturris
Species:	X. millepunctata
Binomial name
	Xenuroturris millepunctata; (Sowerby III, 1908)
Synonyms
	Lophiotoma (Xenuroturris) millepunctata (G. B. Sowerby III, 1909); Lophiotoma millepunctata (G. B. Sowerby III, 1908); Pleurotoma cingulifera var. zonifera Bouge & Dautzenberg, 1914; Pleurotoma millepunctata G.B. Sowerby III, 1908;

Xenuroturris millepunctata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids.^[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 38 mm, its diameter 13 mm.

(Original description in Latin) The elongate-turreted shell is yellowish-white and brown at the apex. It shows very small brown dots marked on every side and is sometimes decorated with flames in a few dark patches. The spire is elongated, sharp and graduated. It contains 10 whorls. The apex is smooth, then the shell is angularly carinated and shows spiral lirae. The shoulders are slightly concave. The suture has a very narrow channel. The body whorl is shorter, convex, angled below, concave and-constricted, with a very short rostrum. The aperture is ovate. The siphonal canal is short. The outer lip is sharp and serrated. The columella is smooth. ^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Indo-West Pacific; also off the Philippines, Japan and Australia (Queensland)

References

Habe, T. 1964. Shells of the western Pacific in color. Osaka : Hoikusha Vol. 2 233 pp., 66 pls.
Powell, A.W.B. 1967. The family Turridae in the Indo-Pacific. Part 1a. The Turrinae concluded. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 1(7): 409-443, pls 298-317
Wilson, B. (1994) Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Vol. 2 Neogastropods. Odyssey Publishing, Kallaroo, Western Australia, 370 pp.
Olivera, B.M. 2002. The gastropod genus Xenuroturris (Iredale, 1929) evaluated and a new turrid Lophiotoma olangoensis described from the Central Philippines. Science Diliman 14(2): 39-49
Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. 2009. Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. pp.196-219 in Gordon, D.P. (ed.). The New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity Volume 1: Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Christchurch : Canterbury University Press 566 pp.

External links

[WoRMS-1] Xenuroturris millepunctata (Sowerby III, 1908). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 April 2010.

[2] Sowerby, G. B. III. (1909). Descriptions of new species of Terebra, Pleurotoma, Trochus, Tellina, Dosina, and Modiola. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 8(4): 198–201.

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