Turricula aethiopica

Turricula aethiopica
Original drawing of a shell of Turricula aethiopica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Clavatulidae
Genus: Turricula (gastropod)
Species: T. aethiopica
Binomial name
Turricula aethiopica
(Thiele, 1925)
Synonyms[1]
  • Surcula aethiopica Thiele, 1925

Turricula aethiopica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.[1] [2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Somalia and Madagascar.

References

  1. 1 2 Turricula aethiopica (Thiele, 1925).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 April 2010.
  2. 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.


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