Turrancilla williamsoni

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Turrancilla williamsoni
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Ancillariidae
Genus: Turrancilla
Species:
T. williamsoni
Binomial name
Turrancilla williamsoni
Petuch, 1987[1]

Turrancilla williamsoni is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ancillariidae.[2]

Description[edit]

Original description: "Shell very slender and elongated, shiny and polished, with an elongated, protracted spire; fascicular band very small, restricted to anterior tip of shell; suture distinctly keeled; shell pale yellow-orange with darker orange enamel along shoulder and on spire whorls; fasciole darker orange; protoconch large, rounded, dome-like; interior of aperture pale orange; columella with 1 large twisted plication; operculum unknown."[3]

Distribution[edit]

Locus typicus: "Off Punto Fijo, Gulf of Venezuela, Venezuela."[4]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Petuch, E.J. (1987) New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas. The Coastal Education and Research Foundation, Charlottesville, Virginia, 154 pp.. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 28 April 2010.
  2. ^ Turrancilla williamsoni Petuch, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 28 April 2010.
  3. ^ Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 105. Publ: CERF
  4. ^ Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 105. Publ: CERF